"Shark Tank" star Daymond John has tracked his goals since he was 14. "Shark Tank"/ABC Daymond John has regularly read Napoleon Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich" since he was 14. It inspired him to start setting goals as specifically as possible and tracking his progress. He has a ritual where he writes his goals down with expiration dates, often holding seven goals at a time. When Daymond John was 14 years old, his dyslexia had yet to be diagnosed, and he only knew that he struggled with reading.