One Key to Success Winners Hate to Admit
It’s more than good luck.
4 min readAug 19, 2021
John Paul Dejoria didn’t come from money. He worked as a truck driver, sold Christmas cards door-to-door, and was a janitor. Getting his first job in hair care at Redken Laboratories was his big break. Not soon after, he was fired.
In 1980, he formed John Paul Mitchell Systems with hairdresser Paul Mitchell and a small loan of…
