Daymond John
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!
It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger.Collection: Dream
Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to doCollection: Want
Truth is the easiest thing to sell.Collection: Truth Is
Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.Collection: Teacher
If you aren't living your dreams then you're living your fears.Collection: Dream
When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.Collection: People
I do today what people won't, so I achieve tomorrow what other people can't.Collection: People
It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect.Collection: Perfect
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don’t be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.Collection: Mistake
You don’t get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.Collection: Jobs
Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make.Collection: Rest Of Your Life
I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacyCollection: Kids
When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down.Collection: Promise
Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.Collection: Reality
We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.Collection: Decision
Good grooming is integral, and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.Collection: Giving
Strategic partners are way more important than money.Collection: Important
While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.Collection: Struggle
I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.Collection: Golf
Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.Collection: Snowboarding
My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.Collection: Slave
I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're going to go and what doesn't work.Collection: Thinking
Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are.Collection: Dresses
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.Collection: Thinking
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. Try to go as far as you can without anybody else's help first.Collection: Mistake
I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn't take no for an answer - they're going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don't blame anybody else. And they're dreamers in one sense but they're also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.Collection: Responsibility
The thing about branding is it isn't etched in stone. A brand is a mark or an image or a perception we stamp on a product, a concept or an ideal, but it doesn't last forever. Like anything else, it needs to be nurtured and reinforced, or it will start to fade.Collection: Forever
It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Jobs
You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.Collection: Facts
Product is always king.Collection: Kings
Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper.Collection: Pioneers
The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that.Collection: Thinking
If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.Collection: Red Flags