Daymond John Quotes

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

You have a lot of companies developing stuff that's just derivative. If 'The Voice' is the No. 1 show on TV, they say, 'Let's do 100 different versions of 'The Voice.' The problem is, by the time you get to market, it's already saturated, and everybody hates the format.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

Definitely that's the worst, to discover that something you're doing has already been done.

Duplication never works for anybody.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don't have to struggle that much.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

Don't be the best. Be the only.

Mr. Trump is Mr. Trump. I'm Mr. Wilders. I'm not anybody's copy or whatsoever.

I see a lot of people try to come out and copy me, duplicate me, and give it the old college try, but at the end of the day, there's only one Chael Sonnen.

You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.

Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?

You either have to be first, best, or different.