Daymond John Quotes

A resource-poor country like Japan can only rely on people's endeavor and knowledge. I would like to continue my effort to provide help to younger people.

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

People think you can find a mentor by walking up to somebody and saying, 'Hey, be my mentor,' or by sending an e-mail to someone you've never e-mailed before and saying, 'Hey, I want you to mentor me.' But, mentorship really happens in rooms that you're actually in.

I owe everything to the Vikings. What they invested in me was more than money.

Listening sounds like a ridiculous characteristic for mentoring, but genuinely being invested and interested in people, meeting them for cups of coffee and spending time with people, and using the network I've been very lucky to build up to help others are all things I do to help others.

You need a manager that believes in you and shows that he believes in you by playing you.

Whenever I invest, I invest in the person as well as the business.

Young people are our future, and I always want to help them to grow.

Ekta Kapoor believed that I would do good work and allowed me to explore. I had that support system.

People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me.

I want us to invest in you.

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

Well, I was lucky to have people throughout my life who invested in me.

I am honored to be selected as the first-ever PGA WORKS Ambassador. Through CORE4, we are committed to training, educating and guiding young men and women toward success in everything they do in life.

What's important about my election into the CEO role at Deloitte is to provide a role model for the next generation of diverse leaders at Deloitte.

When you give a child the opportunity to learn, they always give back.

I've gotten to meet so many talented people!

Under Wenger I became the player that I am today because he's the guy that signed me at 16. I owe him a lot and all the time I spent here he made me play so much even when I was really young. Those are things you owe him back.

I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.

One of the things that are consistent amongst all great leaders is they're a great teammate that is invested in the guys around them to raise the level of play. You do that by believing in guys and caring about them.

I think I was 24 when I went to USC with Pete Carroll. Pete believed in people and never worried about their age. I learned that from him.

It's funny, because earlier, I used to have questions about how you coped with the seniors in the team, and now I get questions about how you're guiding these juniors.

Assessing management quality is clearly one of the most important aspects of an investment decision.

All my directors helped build my confidence.