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It's Not Whether The Glass Is Half Empty Or Half Full, It's Who Is Pouring The Water. The Key In Business And Success At Any Endeavor Is Doing Your Best To Control Your Destiny. You Can't Always Do It, But You Have To Take Every Opportunity You Can To Be As Prepared As-and Ahead Of-the Competition As You Possibly Can Be.

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It's Not Whether The Glass Is Half Empty Or Half Full, It's Who Is Pouring The Water. The Key In Business And Success At Any Endeavor Is Doing Your Best To Control Your Destiny. You Can't Always Do It, But You Have To Take Every Opportunity You Can To Be As Prepared As-and Ahead Of-the Competition As You Possibly Can Be.

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I Love To Compete. To Me, Business Is The Ultimate Sport. It's Always On. There Is Always Someone Trying To Beat Me.

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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.

On The Internet, There Are An Unlimited Number Of Competitors. Anybody With A Flip Camera Is Your Competition. What Makes It Even Worse Is That Youtube Is Willing To Subsidize The Cost Of Your Bandwidth. So Anybody Can Create And Distribute For Free Basically, But The Real Cost Is Marketing. And That's Always The Big Cost - How Do You Stand Out And What's The Cost Of Standing Out? And There's No Limit To That Cost.

When I Die, I Want To Come Back As Me.

If You Are Active Online Or Texting, There Is A Good Chance I Could Look At What You Do And Know More About You Than Your Family.

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If I See A Black Kid In A Hoodie And It's Late At Night, I'm Walking To The Other Side Of The Street. And If On That Side Of The Street, There's A Guy That Has Tattoos All Over His Face, White Guy, Bald Head, Tattoos Everywhere, I'm Walking Back To The Other Side Of The Street, And The List Goes On Of Stereotypes That We All Live Up To And Are Fearful Of.

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.

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

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The New Moron In Town Is Chad Ford Of Espn.com.

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

Do It Because You Love It. Then It’s Not A Job. I’m A Geek. I Love Technology. I Would Be Online Working With Technology Regardless Of What My Day Job Is.

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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.

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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.

Doesnt Matter What Your Skill And Physical Gifts Are If You Cant Get Your Head Right.

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.

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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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.

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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.

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We Can Talk About Republican Or Democratic Approaches To The Economy, But Until You Fix The Student Loan Bubble - And That's Where The Real Bubble Is - And The Tuition Bubble, We Don't Have A Chance. All This Other Stuff Is Shuffling Deck-chairs On The Titanic.

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

If You Want To Deal With Me, Email Is The Way You Do It. Working Via Email Means That Everything I Do Is Searchable. I Can Go Back And Check Out Discussion Threads From More Than 15 Years Ago.

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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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Go Out There And Get Rich. Get So Obnoxiously Rich That When That Tax Bill Comes, Your First Thought Will Be To Choke On How Big A Check You Have To Write.

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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.

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.

When I Started Writing This Blog More Than Years Ago, It Was In Response To Traditional Media's Habit Of Twisting Interviews To Fit The Headlines They Wanted To Create.

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

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.

I Daydreamed For Motivation. I Didn't Lie To Myself And Talk About My Passions And How If I Was Passionate Enough About Something I Could Be Successful At It.

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If You Don't Follow The Stock Market, You Are Missing Some Amazing Drama.

To Retire By The Age Of 35 Was My Goal. I Wasn't Sure How I Was Going To Get There Though. I Knew I Would End Up Owning My Own Business Someday, So I Figured My Challenge Was To Learn As Much As Anyone About All Businesses. I Believed That Every Job I Took Was Really Me Getting Paid To Learn About A New Industry. I Spent As Much Time As I Could, Learning And Reading Everything About Business I Could Get My Hands On. I Used To Go Into The Library For Hours And Hours Reading Business Books And Magazines.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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Always Wake Up With A Smile Knowing That Today You Are Going To Have Fun Accomplishing What Others Are Too Afraid To Do.

It Is Called Working Your Ass Off. The Difference Is What You Are Willing To Sacrifice. For Every Writer Who Wants Balance In Their Life, There Is A Guy Like Me Who Gives Up A Lot To Make Their Dreams Come True. There Is Always Going To Be Someone Out There That Knows They Have To Compensate For Maybe Having Less Talent With Harder Work And Preparation.

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.

Do The Work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell Your Expectations. There Are No Shortcuts.

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I Like Being Involved In Businesses Where You Are Kicking Ass.

Treat Your Customers Like They Own You. Because They Do.

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If There Was A Template For Success In Sports, Everyone Would Follow It. You Do The Best You Can And Trust The People You Trust.

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.

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It Doesn't Matter How Many Times You Fail. You Only Have To Be Right Once And Then Everyone Can Tell You That You Are An Overnight Success.

If I Own Stock In Your Company And You Move Offshore For Tax Reasons I'm Selling Your Stock. There Are Enough Investment Choices Here.

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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But We Have To Ask Ourselves, What's The Purpose Of The Stock Market? It's Supposed To Be A Source Of Capital For Growing Business. It's Lost That Purpose.

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When I Got To The Mavericks People Were All Giving Me Advice - Change This, Change That - And One Thing That I Didn't Do Was Fire Anybody.

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Don't Get Caught Up In How Many Hours You Work. Judge Success Based On Having Goals And Measuring Your Results. Hard Work, And Lots Of It, Is Certainly Needed, But Focus On What You Get Done.

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

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Always Look For The Fool In The Deal. If You Don't Find One, It's You.

Black And White

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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.

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.

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.

Business Relationship

Never Follow Your Dreams. Follow Your Effort.

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Brains Are Far More Important Than Money Or Connections. Everyone And Anyone Can Create A Business Out Of Their Bedroom.

One Thing We Can All Control Is Effort. Put In The Time To Become An Expert In Whatever You’re Doing. It Will Give You An Advantage Because Most People Don’t Do This.

Make Your Product Easier To Buy Than Your Competition, Or You Will Find Your Customers Buying From Them, Not You.

Never Settle. There Is No Reason To Rush.

If You've Got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, You're Better Off Paying Off Any Debt You Have Because That's A Guaranteed Return.

Sometimes The Best Properties Aren't Necessarily The Biggest Properties.

What I’ve Learned In These 11 Years Is You Just Got To Stay Focused And Believe In Yourself And Trust Your Own Ability And Judgment.

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.

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.

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.

It Doesn't Matter Where You Live...it Doesn't Matter How You Live. It Doesn't Matter What Car You Drive. It Doesn't Matter What Kind Of Clothes You Wear.

Clothes You Wear

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.

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

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.

If You Can, You Will Quickly Find That The Greatest Rate Of Return You Will Earn Is On Your Own Personal Spending. Being A Smart Shopper Is The First Step To Getting Rich.

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.

Find Something You Love To Do. If You Don't Make Money At It, At Least You Love Going To Work.

Sweat Equity Is The Most Valuable Equity There Is.

In Today's World Of Technology We Should No Longer Be Using Outdated Paper Processes To Accomplish Tasks Such As Requisitions, Reports, Approvals, And Purchase Orders

Credit Cards Are The Worst Investment That You Can Make.

When You Post Something, When You Text Something, You Lose Ownership Of It When You Hit Enter Or Send. Who You Send It To, Where You Post It, They Take Ownership Of That Information Whether You Like It Or Not

I Was A Beast In College. I Worked Hard And I Played Hard. I Was Relentless Learning About Business. I Actually Snuck Into Mba Classes My Freshman And Sophomore Years. I Wanted To Challenge Myself To See How I Compared To The Smartest Kids At Indiana University So I Was 18 And Pretended I Was An Mba Student.

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?

Success Is About Making Your Life A Special Version Of Unique That Fits Who You Are - Not What Other People Want You To Be.

It's Not About Money Or Connections. It's The Willingness To Outwork And Outlearn Everyone.

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

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.

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.

Selling Is Never About Convincing. It Is Always About Helping.

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

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.

In The Past People Used To Tell Me To Shut Up A Bit. But What I Believe Is To Put Out Your Opinion And Let Everyone Else React. If I'm Wrong I'm Wrong. People Are Afraid To Put Out Their Opinions And Get Push Back.

Open Offices Keep Everyone In Tune With What Is Going On And Keep The Energy Up. If An Employee Is About Privacy, Show Him Or Her How To Use The Lock On The Bathroom.

I'm The Type That Thinks If You Don't Learn From History, You're Doomed To Repeat It.

Every Kid Thinks They Have Something Special About Themselves. Every Adult Thinks They Have A Big Idea At Some Point In Their Life. Rather Than Pursue Every Thing They Possibly Can To Prepare Themselves To Enable Their Idea Or Special Talent, They Tend To Wing It And Make Excuses.

Once You Are Prepared And You Think You Have Every Angle Of Preparation Covered, You Have To Go For It.

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

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.

I Don't Think People Realize The Risks They Face Every Time They Create A Text, Or Post On A Social Network. Unless You Expressly Make The Effort, Everything You Do Online, Including Texting, Has A Shelf Life Of Forever.

I Hate Politics. It's Slimy. Any Job Where People Pander For Votes I Don't Like. The Country Has Gotten So Partisan That If You're Not On My Side, You're The Enemy.

I Know I'm Prejudiced And I Know I'm Bigoted In A Lot Of Different Ways.

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