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Cuban: 75% of underperforming employees know they are underperforming
“When somebody is not doing the job, 75% of the time, they know it, right? And, you know, the other 25%, those are the people who just love to create stress anyways, and then they try to tell you they're solving the stress, right?”
Mark Cuban Feb 8, 2022 ▶ 11:37 Cost Plus Drugs: EXPLAINED | Mark Cuban Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Mark Cuban rejects five-year planning, focusing on short-term business execution
“I don't look forward five years. I look forward a month. You know, I look forward two years, maybe in terms of what drugs are available or coming off a patent or that we can add, but I'm not like, okay, five years.”
Mark Cuban Feb 8, 2022 ▶ 22:07 Cost Plus Drugs: EXPLAINED | Mark Cuban Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Cuban prioritizes cash flow over venture exit multiples when investing
“I want to make money off the cashflow from it, not to have to make money from an exit from it. Cause in exits, I can't control cashflow and profitability. I can work with the entrepreneur and have some level of control.”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 13:53 20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
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Cuban: Nobody will sell a product if the CEO does not
“If the CEO doesn't believe in their product enough to sell it, then nobody else is either.”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 19:07 20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
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Cuban says an employee's primary goal is reducing their boss's stress
“And the number one guideline I give to people is can you reduce the stress of your boss or bosses?”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 22:39 20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
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Cuban asserts that nobody quits anything they excel at
“A, no one quits anything they're great at.”
Mark Cuban May 4, 2020 ▶ 22:48 20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
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