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
jobs wall thinking
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.
jobs giving-up needs
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.
jobs homework rich
You don’t get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.
job taught
My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.
biggest business buzz country generation job looking modern people promoting rock whenever
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.
money ran
I started FUBU in 1989 but ran out of money three times and closed it down.
bigger learned level money
The things that I've learned is, 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.
attempting behind life move trust value
I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.
common solved
Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
bad business
When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.
apartment blocks bought came mansion money seven several six weekend
When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright!
america branded licensed sports
FUBU is pretty well licensed out in China and Asia. In America it's a little more of a challenge, obviously, because it's a branded sport.
brother care crack gonna head love mean respect
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.
brands business complement curve hit lasts line needed partners remind
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.