Daymond John Quotes
102 Daymond John Quotes (FUBU Quotes, Shark Tank Quotes)
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I kept thinking big.
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If you don’t know how to do something, find someone who does.
Daymond John
I made sure there was always something to dream about.
Daymond John
I got my start in business because I stuck my neck out…
Daymond John
[On his mother] She used to say, ‘It takes the same energy to think small as to think big.’
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I get my discipline, my focus, and my drive from my mother.
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I saw opportunity, where everyone else saw distraction. I made a market, where they were just making noise.
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I was always doing something to make money, because in my neighborhood money was power.
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If you want to do something well, you’ve got to be committed to it. You’ve got to do it fully.
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Anything worth doing is worth over-doing…
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I’d keep hearing this line, in the back of my head: if you fail to plan then you plan to fail.
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You can’t have power without desire.
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If I’ve learned on thing in this life it’s this: even if you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
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I’m a firm believer in utilizing celebrities because they tap into people on an emotional basis.
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I got turned down by 27 banks – and bankers are nice compared to the sharks.
Daymond John
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.
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I’m a big advocate of financial intelligence.
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Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.
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If you do not have a strong foundation, the rest will crumble.
Daymond John
It is very difficult to raise children if both parents don’t have the same morals, goals, and visions in mind.
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It’s very easy to preach and tell other people what they should do and shouldn’t do, but the true evidence of whether a person truly does live by the standards he preaches is to see how his children develop into adults.
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It made no sense to be on television, just for the sake of being on television.
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My style is to back-off before I get too close to a deal. It’s a passive-aggressive thing.
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That was the code on the streets, when you wanted to keep someone from chasing after you, you’d take their kicks. It was as good as tying them to a pole.
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I grew up in Hollis, Queens, in a single-family house on Farmers Boulevard.
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More than anything else, it was my neighborhood that defined me.
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I developed the will to succeed…
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Even at twelve, I was a decisive, hard-headed person…
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One of the great lessons I took from my father into my own role as a parent: Don’t lie to your kids, because they’ll grow up and figure you out.
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I’m very proud of my Trinidian heritage. It’s who I am.
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[On his mother] She was willful, independent, resourceful, driven. All those good things – and, hopefully, some of them rubbed off on me.
Daymond John
[On his mother] She used to say, ‘It takes the same energy to think small as to think big.’ Whenever I went to her, thinking one way about something, she’d say, ‘Bigger.’ Whatever I wanted out of life, she’d say, ‘Bigger.’ I grew up wanting a little bit more. I was taught to aim high.
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[On his mother] She’d tell me, ‘Sometimes it’s doing what you love that makes you rich. Sometimes, it’s having something to dream about.’
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My big racket in grade school was selling pencils. I’d pick up all the dropped pencils I could find in school… then I’d shave the yellow paint off the sides with a pen knife so they were no longer identifiable, put my own little designs on them and sell them for a quarter…
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One of my other hustles, early on, was to tramp through the dumpster behind the glass factory, around the block from my house. They used to throw out all these slightly damaged mirrors, all these irregular pieces, and I’d collect what seemed salvageable and smooth out the rough edges with sandpaper and sell them for a dollar or so, as compacts. The girls would just grab this stuff up. I’d work the street corners by my house, or take them to school.
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When I was about ten, I started picking up these used bikes people would leave out on the street for the trash collector. I would take the parts that were still good and stockpile them and after a while I started building some good, working bikes out of other people’s garbage… I turned my backyard into a little factory.
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My mother was always trying to get something off the ground, to turn some sideline into a front-line business.
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I worked at a cookie store. I worked at a popcorn stand. I worked the deep fryer at Church’s Friend Chicken, which was probably the nastiest job you could have.
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That was my mother’s great strength, her wisdom: she gave me a little rope, thinking I would either hang myself with it, or use it to lift myself up and out.
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It’s one thing to be poor. It’s another thing to be without pride or self-respect…
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