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To me business is a sport. I love knowing that 24x7x365xforever I'm competing with people I don't know. To build my businesses. To come up with new ideas. To come up with better ideas. That motivates me.

Mark Cuban

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Mark Cuban
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 31
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