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Mark Cuban
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 31
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It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
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My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me
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I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.
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Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It's not about what you can dream of. That's easy. It's about whether or not it's important enough to you to do the work to be ready to be successful in that business.
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You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.
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When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.
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I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.
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Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
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There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.
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While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.
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Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.
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Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.
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I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.
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I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
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Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .
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I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and keep on going until I'm finished. I don't do calls. I don't do meetings.
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Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.
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