Top 50 Daymond John Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.”

— Daymond John

2. “It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger.”

— Daymond John

3. “If you aren’t living your dreams then you’re living your fears.”

— Daymond John

4. “Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.”

— Daymond John

5. “Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper.”

— Daymond John

6. “Money is a great slave but a horrible master.”

— Daymond John

7. “It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect.”

— Daymond John

8. “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

9. “You don’t get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.”

— Daymond John

10. “I don’t want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy.”

— Daymond John

11. “Truth is the easiest thing to sell.”

— Daymond John

12. “I do today what people won’t, so I achieve tomorrow what other people can’t.”

— Daymond John

13. “We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.”

— Daymond John

14. “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

15. “I’m a big advocate of financial intelligence.”

— Daymond John

16. “I’ve failed way more than I’ve succeeded.”

— Daymond John

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

— Daymond John

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

— Daymond John

19. “Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do.”

— Daymond John

20. “I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.”

— Daymond John

21. “You can make up your own opinion, but you can’t make up your own facts, go sell.”

— Daymond John

22. “When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.”

— Daymond John

23. “Product is always king.”

— Daymond John

24. “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?’”

— Daymond John

25. “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

26. “Strategic partners are way more important than money.”

— Daymond John

27. “Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are.”

— Daymond John

28. “Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.”

— Daymond John

29. “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.”

— Daymond John

30. “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

31. “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.”

— Daymond John

32. “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.”

— Daymond John

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

— Daymond John

34. “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.”

— Daymond John

35. “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.”

— Daymond John

36. “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.”

— Daymond John

37. “The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I’m getting hungry thinking about that.”

— Daymond John

38. “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.”

— Daymond John

39. “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.”

— Daymond John

40. “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.”

— Daymond John

41. “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.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.”

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44. “You don’t have to work for a big corporation if you don’t want to.”

— Daymond John

45. “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.”

— Daymond John

46. “Told myself it didn’t matter if my ride didn’t turn heads – it only mattered that it turned things around for me.”

— Daymond John

47. “It’s gotten to where an entire nation can be energized by the force of a single idea put out into the world in a passionate way through social media – at little or no cost.”

— Daymond John

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

— Daymond John

49. “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

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

— Daymond John