Mark Cuban on the 'best investment' he ever made: 'Most people don't put in the time' to do it

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Mark Cuban on the 'best investment' he ever made: 'Most people don't put in the time' to do it.

"When you're first starting, you may or may not have a job. You don't have any money. You [have] complete uncertainty about your career," he told Men's Health. But "what I learned early on is that if I put in the effort, I can learn almost anything."

Cuban started the learning process by landing a sales gig at computer company Your Business Software, despite not having any relevant experience. "I was scared," he wrote in a"Every night I would take home a different software manual, and I would read them. Of course, the reading was captivating. Peachtree, PFS, DBase, Lotus, Accpac … I couldn't put them down," he continued. "Every night I would read some after getting home, no matter how late.

Learning about software and programming helped him survive his job at Your Business Software, but "most importantly, I realized that I loved working with PCs," he wrote in his blog.from the sales gig for closing a deal without approval from the CEO, but the job led him to start his own computer systems company, MicroSolutions.

 

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The best investment mcuban has ever made is licking the ass of the Chinese.

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Doing business with China. chinabitch

Hes a slave owner!

He is definitely a smart guy, but luck also play an important role. He sold his company to yahoo right before the dot com bubble. Like my father said, you have to be ready at all times because you never know when luck is going to knock on your door.

When they can get $1,000 every two weeks from Uncle Sam, why should they?

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