Daymond John Quotes
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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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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We're all working together; that's the secret.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
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I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.
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I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.
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The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.
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'90210' was looking at teenagers from a perspective that hadn't really been seen on television, though it had been seen in movies like some John Hughes films. I don't know if you want to say '90210' was real, but what the characters were going through was relatable - in a very glamorous environment.
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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.
