Mark Cuban Quotes
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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.
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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.
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If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.
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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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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 .
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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.
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As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.
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All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes the best properties aren't necessarily the biggest properties.
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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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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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Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.
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I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.
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Never settle. There is no reason to rush.
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Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.
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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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Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.
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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.
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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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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.
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Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.
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The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.
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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.
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