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Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

Mark Cuban

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Mark Cuban
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 31
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It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.
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Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.
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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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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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