Daymond John Quotes

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

I'm good at what I do and still improving as I learn from mentors, founders, partners, friends, family, strangers, my own investors, and the experience itself.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.

Good leaders, good team players, know how to make the most of everything.

I turn to people who've been successful running networks, building production companies, building music companies, and people who have done it, and I ask them about their successes. And you will see them light up and give you all the information you need.

What I've learned is, there's not just one way to achieve a goal. There can be obstacles along the way and it's how you learn from that that will really make you a success.

Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.

Fast learners win.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.