Daymond John Quotes

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?' ~ Daymond John

It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me. ~ Daymond John

I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're going to go and what doesn't work. ~ Daymond John

I don't care if you're my brother - if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you. ~ Daymond John

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy ~ Daymond John

I like to look at things that have been developed and re-developed over the course of time so I know the bugs are worked out of it. And in the business itself, I like to look at sales, by far. I want to see that there is a vetted track record of sales to show the price point has worked. ~ Daymond John

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners. ~ Daymond John

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to. ~ Daymond John

Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down. ~ Daymond John

Great brands have wonderful things to convey compared to lousy brands. When lousy brands say "great service," it means something very different than when a great brand utters the same words. ~ David Brier

Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are. ~ Daymond John

Everyone has an idea, but it's taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest. ~ Daymond John

I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most. ~ Daymond John

Money is a great slave but a horrible master. ~ Daymond John

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions. ~ Daymond John

It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger. ~ Daymond John

I look to work with businesses that know what they are doing but need larger distribution or exposure. ~ Daymond John

One of my business partners would remind me that no fashion line lasts forever, that we would hit the down curve eventually, and that we needed to look for new brands that complement the first one. ~ Daymond John

The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that. ~ Daymond John

I've failed way more than I've succeeded. ~ Daymond John

I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process. ~ Daymond John

I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their rhythm and go fund tech companies, and tech companies will go create jobs and employ a lot of people, so there's that aspect of Wall Street. ~ Daymond John

If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales. ~ Daymond John

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first. ~ Daymond John

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions. ~ Daymond John

When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame. ~ Daymond John

If you aren't living your dreams then you're living your fears. ~ Daymond John

I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life. ~ Daymond John

I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich. ~ Daymond John

Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills. ~ Daymond John

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell. ~ Daymond John

I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman. ~ Daymond John

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. ~ Daymond John

Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier. ~ Daymond John

Your competitors have the same idea of how unique, special, vital, and relevant they are with everyone spending a lot of money using the same words, messages, and promises to convince prospects how unique they each are. ~ David Brier

Good grooming is integral and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money. ~ Daymond John

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all. ~ Daymond John

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses. ~ Daymond John

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area. ~ Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence. ~ Daymond John

I think the single biggest turn off is people who think that they need money and they need all these people around them so if they get the money they can just buy all the things they need to help the company ... [without] hav[ing] to put in the work themselves. ~ Daymond John

While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues ... In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors. ~ Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts. ~ Daymond John

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework. ~ Daymond John

Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make. ~ Daymond John

In entrepreneurship, you decide to give up your day job at the point where either (A) the hobby/new business is at least making some form of ends meet, or (B) you feel that you need to dedicate yourself for a certain amount of time to it and give yourself the last hoorah. ~ Daymond John

Most brands started from a strong base and kept a strong belief. ~ Daymond John

In the founders, I look for a person I feel is trustworthy, driven and smart. I invest in the person first, because in the event the business fails, the person and I can move forward and create another business. ~ Daymond John

When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down. ~ Daymond John

It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect. ~ Daymond John

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing. ~ Daymond John

There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead. ~ Daymond John

Life is like business, 20% of what happens to you is 80% of how you react. ~ Daymond John

I'm a firm believer in utilizing celebrities because they tap into people on an emotional basis. ~ Daymond John

Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do ~ Daymond John

Truth is the easiest thing to sell. ~ Daymond John

You don't get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework. ~ Daymond John

I've learned, like with anything else, business is only as good as your connections and your resources. And some of the resources that I have are the fact that I work with huge artists. ~ Daymond John

I started FUBU in 1989 but ran out of money three times and closed it down. ~ Daymond John

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example. ~ Daymond John

The thing about branding is it isn't etched in stone. A brand is a mark or an image or a perception we stamp on a product, a concept or an ideal, but it doesn't last forever. Like anything else, it needs to be nurtured and reinforced, or it will start to fade. ~ Daymond John

It's like me, I wouldn' take the good ol' gospel that was just layin' there to my hand. I got to be pickin' at it until I got it all tore down. ~ John Steinbeck

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over. ~ John Wayne

Got Hollow Points?" Another said: "Heavily Armed . . . and easily pissed." A third one: "Point and Click . . . means you're out of ammo. ~ John Sandford

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is. ~ John McEnroe

Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being. ~ John Locke

I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all. ~ John Waters

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. ~ John Ortberg

Seattle rain smells different from New Orleans rain ... New Orleans rain smells of sulfur and hibiscus, trumpet metal, thunder and sweat. Seattle rain, the widespread rain of the Great Northwest, smells of green ice and sumi ink, of geology and silence and minnow breath. ~ Tom Robbins

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs. ~ John Warnock

The world wasn't made for the us, we were made for the world. ~ John Green

I haven't tried anything like this since the accident."
"I believe in you," I say. I mostly do.
"I'm just saying that there's a very small but not statistically insignificant chance that this care could explode."
"Mike!"
"Fine! ~ John David Anderson

When men and women are single for a long time, the differences are sometimes not as defined. ~ John Gray

When you SEE into the invisible, you will DARE to do the impossible! ~ John Paul Warren

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. ~ John Keats

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history. ~ John Howard

All the figures who upheld and defended American slavery - Senators John C. Calhoun and Stephen Douglas, President James Buchanan, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, architect of the Dred Scott decision, and the main leaders of the Confederacy - were Democrats. ~ Dinesh D'Souza

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love. ~ John Edgar Wideman

Give me women, wine and snuff
Until I cry out 'hold, enough!'
You may do so san objection
Till the day of resurrection;
For bless my beard then aye shall be
My beloved Trinity. ~ John Keats

V-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, David explained that without slates on the roof, the rain would get in. In their way, they were just as important as walls. Dr. Moberley asked David if he was afraid of the rain getting in. David told him that he didn't like getting wet. It wasn't so bad outside, especially if you were dressed for it, but most people didn't dress for rain indoors. ~ John Connolly

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! ~ John Candy

Yet there is no reason to think he derived any consolation from the faith he had inherited. Brought up by his father to be a good Catholic, he became an atheist who admired polytheism. Realizing that the more benign faiths of ancient times could not be revived, he defended the religion of his own time as the least harmful illusion. But he was incapable of surrendering to that illusion himself. Instead, he made a life from disillusion. ~ John N. Gray

We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along. ~ John Lennon

The past beats inside me like a second heart. ~ John Banville

I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures. ~ John Keats

Admiration of beauty and longing for possession are not love. ~ John Galsworthy

The Spice Girl morality is the morality of the three-year-old. ~ John Marsden

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. ~ John Locke

The mind is a mass of contradictions and conflicts. We lie to make others trust us. We hide our true selves in the pursuit of intimacy. We chase happiness in ways that drive happiness away. When we're wrong we fight the hardest to prove we're right. Caught ~ John Verdon

A mother beyond compare Have a lovely day Mom ~ John Walter Bratton

Fame had kept me from getting laid that night. Fame would make it so other people would bother me, follow me around with cameras, be all up in my shit, keep me from doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Fame could even potentially kill me. It killed a lot of people: John Lennon, Princess Diana, Selena. ~ A.D. Aliwat

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action. ~ John Desmond Bernal

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. ~ John Locke

This is the problem with only children, John decides, exhausted. They think they're the center of the universe, and that doesn't mean they feel special, it just means they think everything is their fault. ~ Metisket

I find economics increasingly satisfactory, and I think I am rather good at it. I want to manage a railroad or organise a Trust or at least swindle the investing public ~ John Maynard Keynes

Ve always believed if you're involved even in a very small struggle - in some sort of infinity in a grain of sand - in your local neighborhood, that every action has universal implications. I believe that if I struggle for the rights of an acequia in Taos, New Mexico that the ripple effect [will spread] from that tiny struggle. ~ John Nichols

We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. ~ Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston