It’s always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.
In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.
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.
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.
The beauty of success, whether it’s finding the girl of your dreams, the right job or financial success, is that it doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.
Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.
I’m not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.
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.
There is no sport as competitive as business. It’s 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.
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.
I didnt know I was mad about anything. I guess if the New York Times says I am, I must be.
Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.
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.
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.
You’ve got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don’t always correlate as highly as people would like.
Can’t say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.
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.
Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.
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.
In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.