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
giving style want
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.
important way partners
Strategic partners are way more important than money.
needs ceo i-need-him
If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.
thinking eggs perfect
The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that.
block decision making-money
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.
forever perception needs
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.
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.
dog dancing hot
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.
red-flags stronger needs
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.
facts opinion sells
You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.
kids want legacy
I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy
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.
mistake trying levels
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.
financial-intelligence financial bigs
I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.