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If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

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Mark Cuban
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 31
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Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.
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Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.
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In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.
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I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.
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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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Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.
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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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Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.
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When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not
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Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.
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You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.
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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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When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.
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Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.
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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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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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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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A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it's okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they're out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.
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