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The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

Mark Cuban

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Mark Cuban
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 31
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Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.
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The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.
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Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's supposed to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.
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Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.
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Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.
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As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.
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As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual.
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Most people think money is the key to reducing risk. Prepartion is.
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If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.
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I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.
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As far as businesses, I was always hustling. I had to pay for my own school. I got 20 bucks every week or 2 from my dad and that was it. So I had a whatever it took attitude.
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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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Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.
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Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.
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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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Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.
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One thing we can all control is effort
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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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I just started a business called HDNet. There never is one area that has a door open to everyone. Try to find an area with something you love to do and do it. It's a lot easier to work hard and prepare when you love what you are doing.
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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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