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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.

Mark Cuban

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Mark Cuban
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 31
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Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.
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Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.
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Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.
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Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it. There are always going to be things we love to do. That we dream about doing. That we really, really want to do with our lives. Those passions aren't worth a nickel.
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What I’ve learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.
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Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.
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If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.
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