Daymond John

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.

Daymond John

I had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working on the business in between jobs.

Daymond John

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

Daymond John

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.

Daymond John

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.

Daymond John

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

I’m the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

Daymond John

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

Daymond John

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

It’s the string of obstacles that separate the people that truly want their company to succeed from everyone else.

Daymond John