Daymond John Quotes

I think everything starts with an idea. No matter how crazy it is, you should always try to bring it to life.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

You can have outlandish ideas, but if you don't work at them, they just remain outlandish ideas. Anyone can have an idea. Work is transformative.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

People are always advised to follow your dreams, but in 'That Will Never Work' I show them how!

If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.

Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.