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" Most brands started from a strong base and kept a strong belief. "
Daymond John
Belief
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" When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright! "
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Weekend
Miami
" 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. "
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Create
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Think
" I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life. "
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Know
Trust
" If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all. "
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Business
Great
People
" 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. "
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Look
Business
Want
" Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques. "
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Common Sense
Research
Problem
" If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales. "
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Experience
Her
Him
" I've failed way more than I've succeeded. "
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Way
Than
Succeeded
" 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. "
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Kind
Lead By Example
Person
" 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. "
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Time
Style
Money
" 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. "
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Go
Off
Choice
" Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses. "
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The Most Important
Important
Mentors
" 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. "
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Business
Like
Good
" As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning. "
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Entrepreneur
You
Learning
" 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. "
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Business
Think
Never
" I look to work with businesses that know what they are doing but need larger distribution or exposure. "
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Know
Need
Work
" My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework. "
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Me
Parents
Job
" 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. "
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You
Ready
Better
" 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. "
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Mistakes
Business
Road
" In the founders, I look for a person I feel is trustworthy, driven and smart. I invest in the person first, because in the event the business fails, the person and I can move forward and create another business. "
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Forward
Business
Smart
" 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. "
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Enjoy
People
Opportunity
" There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead. "
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Business
Problems
Think
" A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing. "
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Face
Together
People
" I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most. "
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Sleeping
You
Think
" 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. "
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Respect
Football
Care
" 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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You
Never
Money
" 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. "
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Delivery
Red
Work
" In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing. "
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Doing
Out
Products
" Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier. "
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Words
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