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I'm The Luckiest Guy In The World. I Wake Up Every Day Just Fired Up. My One Rule Is, Don't Let Anyone Pinch Me, Because I Don't Want To Wake Up.

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I'm The Luckiest Guy

Mark Cuban

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I'm The Luckiest Guy In The World. I Wake Up Every Day Just Fired Up. My One Rule Is, Don't Let Anyone Pinch Me, Because I Don't Want To Wake Up.

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There Is Very Little Knowledge That Can't Be Obtained Through Effort. With Knowledge You Can Determine The State Of Any Business Or Opportunity And Find A Course To Gain An Advantage.

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If It Had Anything To Do With The Pc Or Networking Industry I Was On Top Of It. I Bought Manuals. I Read Every Book And Magazine. Then I Would Get Involved With Industry Conferences And Put Myself Out There.

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

I've Learned The Number One Job Of A Pro Manager Is Not To Win Championships But To Keep Their Job.

I Love Helping Entrepreneurs. It's Something I Really Have Fun Doing. It's Like Planting A Little Seed And Watching It Grow. Any Time I Can Help Somebody, That's A Good Thing. It's Fun. If I Get To Make Some Money At It, It's Even Better.

I Love The Competitive Aspect Of It [business]. It's Like Playing Chess. Why Do People Play Chess? Knowing The Realm Of Moves? Even When You Get To Be A Chess Master, There Are Other Chess Masters You Want To Beat Or Outperform. And To Me Business Is Just A Sport That I Love To Compete In; A Continuous Intellectual Challenge That Really Motivates Me.

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The Key Is Having Great Players. But There Are A Lot Of Teams That Have All-stars And Haven't Been Able To Put It Together.

Sports, Music, Movies - Basically, Fans Of Any Form Of Entertainment Don't Do A Resume Analysis Before Picking Their Favorite.

Everyone Tells You How They Are Going To Be "special", But Few Do The Work To Get There. Do The Work.

We All Have A History Of Digital Texts, Posts, Messages, Reposts/tweets That Are Sitting Out There And Can Be Used By Anyone For Any Reason.

I Never Look At The Glass As Half Empty Or Half Full. I Look To See Who Is Pouring The Water And Deal With Them.

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.

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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The Stock Market's Handling Of New Technology Is Kind Of A Joke. We Have Seen Cnbc, Cnnfn, Bloomberg, And The Like Turn Into Home-shopping Networks For Stocks. Fund Managers And Analysts Go On Tv And Sell What's Shiny And Easy To Sell.

As I Would Learn Later In Life, Money Makes You Extremely Handsome.

The Number-one Job Of The Hedge-fund Manager Is Not To Make Sure That You Can Retire With A Smile On Your Face - It's For Him To Retire With A Smile On His Face.

All That Matters In Business Is That You Get It Right Once. Then Everyone Can Tell You How Lucky You Are.

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I Look At My Annual Budgets For Everything And Anything, And I Look To See Where I Can Save The Most Money On Those Items. Saving 30% To 50% Buying In Bulk - Replenishable Items From Toothpaste To Soup, Or Whatever I Use A Lot Of - Is The Best Guaranteed Return On Investment You Can Get Anywhere.

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Even When I Had Nothing, I Had Everything. Because I Love To Compete.

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It Would Have Been Easy To Judge Effort By How Many Hours A Day Passed While I Was At Work. That's The Worst Way To Measure Effort. Effort Is Measured By Setting Goals And Getting Results.

Sometimes You Buy The Horse, Sometimes You Invest In The Jockey. It Really Comes Down To The Actual Business And The Upside.

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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I'm Always Afraid Of Failing. It's Great Motivation To Work Harder.

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Everyone Has Ideas. The First Step Is To Learn More About Your Industry Than Anyone In The World. Otherwise There Is A Good Chance That The Lady That Knows It Better Than You Is Going To Kick Your Ass. Then You Just Have To Go For It. No Excuses. Just Work Your Ass Off.

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I Just Try To Have A Good Time, Enjoy My Family, Enjoy My Life. I Was Having A Blast When I Was Poor, And I'm Having Maybe A Little Bit More Now That I've Got Something In The Bank.

Being Rich Is A Good Thing. Not Just In The Obvious Sense Of Benefitting You And Your Family, But In The Broader Sense. Profits Are Not A Zero Sum Game. The More You Make, The More Of A Financial Impact You Can Have.

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I Think One Of The Biggest Curses In The U.s. Is That We Have Only Two Political Parties.

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I Was Lucky. I Grew Up Knowing That Hard Work And Smart Work Has A Greater Impact On Results Than Being Passionate About Something.

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I Retired At Twenty-nine, Bought A Life-time Pass On American Airlines And My Only Goal In Life Was To Party Like A Mad Man And Get Drunk With As Many People As Possible. And I Was Happy Right There. But When We Started The Streaming Business, I Knew It Could Be Something Big.

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With Every Effort, I Learned A Lot. With Every Mistake And Failure, Not Only Mine, But Of Those Around Me, I Learned What Not To Do. I Also Got To Study The Success Of Those I Did Business With As Well. I Had More Than A Healthy Dose Of Fear, And An Unlimited Amount Of Hope, And More Importantly, No Limit On Time And Effort.

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While Some People Might Find It Distasteful To Pay Taxes, I Don't. I Find It Patriotic.

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Most People Think It's All About The Idea. It's Not. Everyone Has Ideas. The Hard Part Is Doing The Homework To Know If The Idea Could Work In An Industry, Then Doing The Preparation To Be Able To Execute On The Idea.

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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I Don't Think There's Any Question That The Ufl Or Any Other League That Wants To Challenge The Nfl Can Have An Impact. The Demand For Professional Football Is Off The Charts.

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A Long List. From Getting Cut From The High School Basketball Team, To Getting Fired From Jobs, Getting Credit Cards Rejected And Cut Up. Rejection Has Only Been A Distraction, Not A Roadblock. “every No Gets Me Closer To A Yes,” Was The Saying I Used To Use.

In Every Job, I Would Justify It In My Mind, Whether I Loved It Or Hated It, That I Was Getting Paid To Learn And Every Experience Would Be Of Value When I Figured Out What I Wanted To Do When I Grew Up.

Creating A Close Connection To Those You Do Business With Has Its Many Risks, Rewards And Consequences. There Are Few Things In Business I Have Encountered That Are More Difficult Than Firing Someone, Particularly If That Someone Has Always Been, Or Has Become A Friend. On The Flip Side, I Have Been Rewarded With Many Friends.

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.

Patent Law Holds Us Back, In Every Which Way, Shape Or Form. There Is Place For It, In Physical Products, In Pharmaceuticals, But In Software In Particular, There Is No Place For It.

Nothing Can Kill The Future Dreams And Goals Of A New Graduate Than 50k Of Debt Like An Anvil Over Your Head. I Got To Indiana University Not Because I Visited The Campus And Loved Everything About It. I Picked Indiana University Because I Saw A List Of The Top 10 Business Schools And It Was The Cheapest.

The Thrill Of Victory In Business Blows Away The Thrill Of Victory In Sports. Business Is A Sport 24/7/365.

Learn To Sell. In Business You’re Always Selling: To Your Prospects, Investors And Employees. To Be The Best Salesperson Put Yourself In The Shoes Of The Person To Whom You’re Selling. Don’t Sell Your Product. Solve Their Problems.

I Had Been In The Technology Business For So Long, I Had Seen The Pc-bubble Come And Burst, I Had Seen The Local Area And Wide Area Networking-bubble Come And Burst, It Was No Shock That The Internet-bubble Was Going To Burst.

It Takes A Lot Of Things To Work Together In Order To Be Wealthy But With A Little Luck, A Lot Of Luck... You've Got To Be Good At Something. For A 20-year-old, You Don't Have To Know Exactly What You Want To Do, You've Just Got To Go Find Something You Can Be Great At, And Then Go Be Great At It.

If Ayn Rand Were An Up-and-coming Author Today, She Wouldn't Write About Steel Or Railroads, It Would Be Net Neutrality.

I Think The Nfl Is 10 Years Away From An Implosion.

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Kids Should Go To College, But They Should Go To The Best School They Can Afford To Get Through With Minimal Or No Debt. That Might Mean Going To A Community College Or An Inexpensive Local State School. Whatever It Takes.

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I Think You’ve Got To Be Very, Very Careful When You Start Making Blanket Statements About What People Say And Think, As Opposed To What They Do. It’s A Very, Very Slippery Slope.

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Know Your Core Competencies And Focus On Being Great At Them. Pay Up For People In Your Core Competencies. Get The Best. Outside The Core Competencies, Hire People That Fit Your Culture But Are Cheap.

Today Is The Youngest You Will Ever Be. Live Like It.

Having The Ability To Be Brutally Honest With Yourself Is The Greatest Challenge You Face When Creating A Business Model. Too Often We Oversell Ourselves On The Quality Of The Idea, Service, Or Product. We Don't Provide An Honest Assessment Of How We Fit In The Market, Why Customers Will Buy From Us, And At What Price.

You Never Quite Know In Business If What You Are Doing Is The Right Or The Wrong Thing. Unfortunately, By The Time You Know The Answer, Someone Has Beaten You To It And You Are Out Of Business.

Wherever There Is Change, And Wherever There Is Uncertainty, There Is Opportunity!

Do The Things That Make Perfect Sense To You, [and] Don't Be Afraid To Shout It From The Mountain Tops Just Because It's Outside The Box Or Against The Grain In Your Industry. More Often Than Not, You're Probably Going To Be Right.

The One Thing In Life You Can Control Is Your Effort. Are There Any Shortcuts In The Beauty Business? No. That Was The First Lesson I Learned. You Can't Just Rocket To The Top.

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.

There Is Only One Thing In Life You Can Control: Your Own Effort.

We All Know Or Have Read About Someone Who Has Been Burned On Social Media. We Have Taught Our Kids Not To Post Pictures Publicly That Could Impact Their Future, But We Have Not Yet Taught Ourselves That Texts, Messages And Social Media Posts Could Be Used Just As Maliciously Or With As Much Downside As Pictures.

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 .

In Business, One Of The Challenges Is Making Sure That Your Product Is The Easiest To Experience And Complete A Sale.

Know Your Stuff. Have An Angle. Know How To Grow Business, How To Develop Products, Have Patents And An Undeveloped Market That Could Be Huge.

Yes. And Release Prisoners Who Are Incarcerated For Pot.

When You Turn Your Team Upside Down And Try To Figure Out What The Culture Of The Team Is, You Take The Greatest Risk A Team Can Take.

The Sport Of Business Is The Ultimate Competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × Forever.

It Takes Time, It's A Grind. There Are No Shortcuts. You've Got To Grind And Grind.

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.

Companies Fail For Lack Of Brains And Effort.

I Think Political People Are Afraid Of Me.

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.

The Nba (national Basketball Association) Is Never Just A Business. It's Always Business. It's Always Personal. All Good Businesses Are Personal. The Best Businesses Are Very Personal.

Because If You're Prepared And You Know What It Takes, It's Not A Risk. You Just Have To Figure Out How To Get There. There Is Always A Way To Get There.

What I Do Know, At Least What I Think I Have Learned From My Experiences In Business, Is That When There Is A Rush For Everyone To Do The Same Thing, It Becomes More Difficult To Do. Not Easier. Harder.

With Android I Get To Choose From Many Different Products From Many Different Phone Manufacturers. With Ios, I Get What Apple Gives Me. Which Isn't Necessarily Bad, But It's Not Always The Best Fit For My Personal Or Business Communication Needs.

I'm A Believer That You Accomplish Much, Much More With Direct Relationships Than By Using An Intermediary. And That Cash You Keep In The Bank Can Be The Difference Between Staying Alive As A Small Business, Or Not.

It Doesn't Matter How Many Times You Fail. It Doesn't Matter How Many Times You Almost Get It Right. No-one Is Going To Know Or Care About Your Failures, And Neither Should You. All You Have To Do Is Learn From Them And Those Around You. All That Matters In Business Is That You Get It Right Once. Then Everyone Can Tell You How Lucky You Are.

If I Didn't Like You, I Could Take Any Or All Of What I Found And Invent A Context That Lost You Your Job, Your Relationships, Your Degree. People Are So Vulnerable Online And They Don't Realize It. That Is Scary To Me.

I Didnt Know I Was Mad About Anything. I Guess If The New York Times Says I Am, I Must Be.

It's Not In The Dreaming, It's In The Doing.

Once You Have Found Out What You Love To Do, There Is Only One Goal: To Be The Best In The World At It.

I Can Turn An Idea Into A Business Before You Know It's Going To Be Important. My First Step Will Blow By You.

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.

Am I Crazy To Spend [millions] In Contracts When I Have The Chance To Get Three Layers Deep Into The Playoffs?

What Does It Take To Be A Successful Entrepreneur? It Takes Willingness To Learn, To Be Able To Focus, To Absorb Information, And To Always Realize That Business Is A 24/7 Job Where Someone Is Always Out There To Kick Your Ass.

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.

Linking Without Permission Is Stealing. Period, End Of Story.

All Good Businesses Are Personal. The Best Businesses Are Very Personal.

In These Times Of The "great Recession", We Shouldn't Be Trying To Shift The Benefits Of Wealth Behind Some Curtain. We Should Be Celebrating And Encouraging People To Make As Much Money As They Can. Profits Equal Tax Money. While Some People Might Find It Distasteful To Pay Taxes, I Don't. I Find It Patriotic.

Focus On Building The Best Possible Business. If You Are Great, People Will Notice And Opportunities Will Appear.

I'm A Big Believer That You Always Reiterate, You Always Learn, You Always Realize Your Business Is Evolving.

Every 'no' Gets Me Closer To A 'yes'.

I Worked Hard And Smarter Than Most People In The Businesses I Have Been In.

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.

Never Follow Your Dreams. Follow Your Effort. It's Not About What You Can Dream Of. That's Easy. It's About Whether Or Not It's Important Enough To You To Do The Work To Be Ready To Be Successful In That Business.

Never Settle. There Is No Need To Rush.

There Is No Sport As Competitive As Business. It's 24 By 7 By 365 By Forever.

I Just Started A Business Called Hdnet. There Never Is One Area That Has A Door Open To Everyone. Try To Find An Area With Something You Love To Do And Do It. It's A Lot Easier To Work Hard And Prepare When You Love What You Are Doing.

It Is So Much Easier To Be Nice, To Be Respectful, To Put Yourself In Your Customers' Shoes And Try To Understand How You Might Help Them Before They Ask For Help, Than It Is To Try To Mend A Broken Customer Relationship.

I'm Scared Shitless Of Heights.

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