Daymond John
Daymond John
Daymond Garfield Johnis an American entrepreneur, investor, television personality, author and motivational speaker. He is best known as the founder, president, and CEO of FUBU, and appears as an investor on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth23 February 1969
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.
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When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.
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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.
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Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are.
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Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do
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You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.
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A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.
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Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family and business with expiration dates, and I update them every six months.
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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.
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My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.
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I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.
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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.
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Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.
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An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.