Daymond John Quotes

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.

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

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

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

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.

I do today what people won't, so I achieve tomorrow what other people can't.

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

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

Strategic partners are way more important than money.

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

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

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

You don’t get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.

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

Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are.

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

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.

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.

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.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

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

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

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.

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

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

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

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

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

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

Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper.

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

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Truth is the easiest thing to sell.

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.

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?'

Product is always king.

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The easiest thing to sell is truth.