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There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

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Mark Cuban
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 31
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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 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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I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.
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My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even take the time to read a fiction book. It was all about work. When I sold it, I promised myself I would never wear a watch and only wear a suit to weddings, funerals and to meet the President.
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It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.
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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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The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
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Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!
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I create offbeat advice I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.
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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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One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.
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One thing we can all control is effort
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Sales is the most important aspect of a company, which in turn is about how well you treat your customer and stay ahead of your customer's requirements.
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If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.
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Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.
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All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
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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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Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.
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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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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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