Daymond John famous quotes

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

#Perfect #Making Time

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

#Want #Corporations #Bigs

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

#Doing What You Want #Wake Up #Waking

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

#Struggle #Issues #Ideas

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

#Dream #Thinking #Energy

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

#Giving #Style #Looks

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

#Needs #Ceo #I Need Him

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

#Promise #Able #Audience

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

#Teacher #Giving #Lessons

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

#Reality #Ideas #Firsts

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

#Dream #Entrepreneur #Made

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.
-- Daymond John

#Choices #Black History #Workforce

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

#Entrepreneur #Looks #Firsts

Strategic partners are way more important than money.
-- Daymond John

#Important #Way #Partners

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

#Way

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.
-- Daymond John

#Stronger #Needs #Flags

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don’t be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.
-- Daymond John

#Mistake #Bumps #May

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

#Moving #Taken #Scare

Truth is the easiest thing to sell.
-- Daymond John

#Truth Is

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

#Dream

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

#Mind #Copycats

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

#Different #Trends #Timeless

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

#Good Life #People #Effort

Try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner’s money or assets you’ve learned and you don’t make bigger mistakes. Try to go as far as you can without anybody else’s help first.
-- Daymond John

#Mistake #Trying #Levels

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

#Financial #Bigs

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.
-- Daymond John

#Investment #Revenue

Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper.
-- Daymond John

#Pioneers

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

#Jobs #Homework #Rich

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

#Willing

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

#Block #Decision #Making Money

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

#Inspirational #Children #Love You

I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn't take no for an answer - they're going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don't blame anybody else. And they're dreamers in one sense but they're also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.
-- Daymond John

#Responsibility #Thinking #Entrepreneur

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

#Slave #Masters #Horrible

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

#Needs #Looks #Exposure

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.
-- Daymond John

#Decision #Want

I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.
-- Daymond John

#Opportunity #People #Giving

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

#Kids #Legacy #Inheritance

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

#Jobs #Wall #Thinking

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

#People #Today #Tomorrow