A biography for Daymond Johnhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't care if you're my brother - if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?'”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I always tried to align myself with strategic partners, friends, and information to help me with the things that I did not know, and ultimately, I made it.”
“A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.”
“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.”
“Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.”
“Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.”
“If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.”
“Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.”
“I look to work with businesses that know what they are doing but need larger distribution or exposure.”
“I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that.”
“One of my business partners would remind me that no fashion line lasts forever, that we would hit the down curve eventually, and that we needed to look for new brands that complement the first one.”
“You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.”
“FUBU is pretty well licensed out in China and Asia. In America it's a little more of a challenge, obviously, because it's a branded sport.”
“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.”