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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.

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It Takes A Lot

Mark Cuban

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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.

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One Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Is That We Lie To Ourselves. We Don't Step Back And Look At Ourselves Like A Competitor Would.

Tech Stocks Were The Cubic Zirconium Of The Market. They Looked Good And Were Sexy, But They Just Were A Way For The Company Selling Them To Make Money. That's Always Going To Be Transient In Terms Of The Stock Market. What's Real Is That Companies Have To Compete. Technology Used Well Is A Great Tool To Enable That If Only Because Most Companies Dont Use Technologies Well.

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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The Only Thing In Your Control Is Effort. That's All, And That's Everything.

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.

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.

I Love To Compete. I Want To Get Out There And Kick Your Ass In The Business World. That Is What Inspires Me.

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

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

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.

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.

Perfectionism Is The Enemy Of Profitability.

Love What You Do Or Don't Do It.

Being Able To Take A Traditional Cable-television Subscriber And Give Them New Widget Type Applications To Me Is Huge.

If I Can Do It, You Can Do It.

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.

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.

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.

In My Opinion, Right Now There's Way Too Much Hype On The Technologies And Not Enough Attention To The Real Businesses Behind Them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I Still Work Hard To Know My Business. I'm Continuously Looking For Ways To Improve All My Companies, And I'm Always Selling. Always.

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

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.

It's Always The Little Decisions That Have The Biggest Impact.

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.

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.

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

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

Recessions Are The Best Time To Start A Company. Companies Fail. Others Hold Back Capital. If You Are Willing To Do The Preparation And Work, It Is The Best Time To Invest In Yourself And Start A Business.

If You Have Managers Reporting To Managers In A Startup, You Will Fail. Once You Get Beyond Startup, If You Have Managers Reporting To Managers, You Will Create Politics.

Credit Cards Are The Worst Investment That You Can Make.

Work Like There Is Someone Working Twenty-four Hours A Day To Take It All Away From You.

One Problem People Have Is That They Lie To Themselves. Rarely Is Talent Enough. You Have To Find Ways To Make Yourself Standout. You Do So By Playing To Your Strengths And Making People Aware Of Those Strengths.

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.

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.

Sweat Equity Is The Most Valuable Equity There Is.

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