Daymond John quotes

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first. (Daymond John)

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.

Daymond John

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.

Daymond John

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

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I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

Daymond John

I look to work with businesses that know what they are doing but need larger distribution or exposure.

Daymond John

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

Daymond John

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.

Daymond John

If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.

Daymond John

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. (Daymond John)

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

Daymond John

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

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In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.

Daymond John

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.

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I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.

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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.

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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.

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I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

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I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.

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You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to. (Daymond John)

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

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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.

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If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

Daymond John