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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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.
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I've learned, like with anything else, business is only as good as your connections and your resources. And some of the resources that I have are the fact that I work with huge artists.
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I had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working on the business in between jobs.
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I like to look at things that have been developed and re-developed over the course of time so I know the bugs are worked out of it. And in the business itself, I like to look at sales, by far. I want to see that there is a vetted track record of sales to show the price point has worked.
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.
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We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.
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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.
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.
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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
corporations want bigs
You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.