"In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them."
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"Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn."
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"If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time."
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"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."
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"Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work."
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"Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?"
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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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"When I die, I want to come back as me."
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"Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear."
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"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"
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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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"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."
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"Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts."
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