Daymond John Quotes

I set goals for myself every three months. I write them down.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.

Are you the person who just wakes up, puts your T-shirt on and runs out of the house? Or do you wake up an hour early - get your mental notes together, fix you a little coffee... prepare yourself for the day and try to do something really great? It begins with you.

Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.

I am all about self-improvement and becoming the best version of myself, it could be in my career, my finance, or just life in general.

I wake up every day like, 'How can I get better, how can I help my teammates be successful? I try to control what I can control and worry about us, nothing else.

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

It's important in any project to remain focused.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

You live day by day. You can't build your life.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'