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.
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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.
believer firm people
I'm a firm believer in utilizing celebrities because they tap into people on an emotional basis.
besides business knew
I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that.
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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.
common solved
Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
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.
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.
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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.