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.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that successful businesses intertwine personal relationships with professional dealings.
Mark Cuban's quote highlights the importance of personal connections in business. While business transactions may be viewed as solely financial, they are deeply influenced by the relationships and personal stakes involved. The quote suggests that true success in business comes from treating it as a personal affair, where passion and commitment play pivotal roles.
In practice
In a business seminar discussing the importance of personal branding.
If the pitch starts with a sob story, I'm out. If the pitch talks about personal issues, I'm out. If the pitch starts off with how big the market opportunity is, I'm out. If the pitch tells me what is unique about the product, how it can make a profit, and it's an area where I have expertise, I will read on.
Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.
It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.
I think youβve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. Itβs a very, very slippery slope.
Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences._x000D_ _x000D_ There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend._x000D_ _x000D_ On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.
I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.
He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospitality. You need both things to thrive, but they are completely different.
Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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