Daymond John Quotes

Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

I made my money with good investments, I'm going to make maybe $1 million a year just with my real estate.

The more money you make, the more times people sue you.

I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.

He who loves wine … shall not be rich.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

I am not in Wall Street for my health.

I'm not a tycoon or anything like that. Does my property amount to several million dollars? Of course it does.

A vacation home is a wonderful 'extra' as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it's still basically a very large, very expensive toy.

What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'

Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.

I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.

I made some money, some real money on my first real estate transaction.

You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.

Diana, whatever her failings, was not into making money, or as Harry and Meghan put it, financial independence.

Financial security is important to me.

The willingness to take risk is largely a function of wealth.

I've known numerous actors who got a pilot that they thought was going to run forever, and they went out and blew all of the money. Now they've got a mortgage they can't pay for.

I don't think spending money is a guarantee for anything.

I am not the sort of person who will wake up and go and buy myself a Ferrari.