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Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

Mark Cuban

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Mark Cuban
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 31
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We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.
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I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.
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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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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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Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business.
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Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.
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I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.
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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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When I die, I want to come back as me.
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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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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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We romanticize entrepreneurshi p so much that people don't do the work. It's not just a dream, not just a goal it's a lot of hard work. A lot of people are wantrepreneurs, not entrepreneurs.
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It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it
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The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there.
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YouTube has gotten so big that you're not a standard unless YouTube adopts you. And that's a big fight.
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If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?
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The beauty of success, whether it’s finding the girl of your dreams, the right job or financial success, is that it doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.
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Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.
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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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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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