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
common solved
Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
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There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead.
dream entrepreneur profit
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.
people today tomorrow
I do today what people won't, so I achieve tomorrow what other people can't.
kings products
Product is always king.
decision want
We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.
teacher giving lessons
Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.
people succeed blame
When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.
thinking people needs
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.
dresses accurate
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
corporations want bigs
You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.
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.