How Mark Cuban Decided He Couldn't Work for Anyone Else | Inc. Magazine

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban sits down with Inc.'s Eric Schurenberg to talk about his early struggles and biggest successes, Donald Sterling and Shark Tank--and offers frank advice for other business owners.

[vanchark]

This video has two parts to it, and to watch the other part, I have to visit their website. For that reason, I'm out.

[BRBallin]

So basically, the key to success is not playing by the rules.

[KurtisCharlton]

It's refreshing to hear people admit to being shit employees. I was one of them for over a decade! The funny thing is, my last job was as a VP of Product Development at a Law Firm. I couldn't figure out why people were giving me the opportunities. It eventually boiled down to the fact that I'm great at maintaining relationships and sales but awful at office politics, process, and had a tendency to question authority DAILY. My MBA was a 120k work permit lol. I now work for myself and am SEVERELY underpaid like BARELY higher than minimum wage BUT I'm happy as fuck and my schedule is built around my life and what's important to me and my family. Money isn't everything but it certainly helps. I wasn't willing to wait until retirement to enjoy life. I know it will be a few more years until I can close the financial gap but trudging into an office building everyday is not the way I want to live.

[zakr]

He sounds like a great employee, who had terrible (but typical) bosses.

[rooclicknet]

Either someone will hire you to build their dream Or you build your own dream

[russelltech]

You ever want to make any real money, you have to work for yourself . Going by rules of building someone's business and making barly enough to survive doesn't work for me. I'll always continue to work for myself.

[DrDoinks]

Love how he isn’t afraid to curse as well as explain his misdeeds or mischief while explaining his story. I love hearing the raw story to success, not the boring, LinkedIn version!

[DB-cbxb]

"An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off of a cliff and builds a parachute on the way down." This is the temperament of most business owners. They are compulsive, relentless and driven. Not a healthy behavior for sure, but they want to get things done and enjoy later.

[slidejones]

I honestly see Mark Cuban as my business mentor. He was determined to succeed by all means and he did. Now, he is enjoying his life.

[slrd_spiritual]

"there's a time in every entrepreneur's life where he realizes, this is his calling. that he can't bring himself to work for anybody else".

I am now 33.. and I literally JUST had this enlightenment. It's literally a sincere realization type of thing.

The job I just had recently just set me free.. had nothing to do with my work ethic.. I was simply better than the management, and they didn't like that. (Almost) everyone liked me.. but them.

But me being released was a (huge) blessing in disguise..

[despeoples]

Working for someone else is always always slavery. Period the end. Those who don't realize it now, will pay dearly.

[CuriosityCulture]

I read his book/pdf, 'How to win in the sport of business'
That man has a great story :)

[kennethsouthard]

My question is this. Now that Mark is the 'big boss, ' how does he treat an employee that had the same traits as he did when he was an employee?

[tacozombie]

I can’t work for someone. I don’t know why but I can’t stand it because I always figure out flaws

[AlaKareem]

I had a similar experience, that causes me to move from dedication to carelessness, and now I'm doing great

[Officialsearch]

I went through the same thing with my all my bosses. They limit your responsibilities and therefore limit my potential just so they can have the satisfaction of knowing that I did exactly what they told me to do. Now read this carefully but usually, I was assigned dumb things when people of less capability were assigned the jobs I preferred. Sure you can argue that have I done these things I would have been assigned the jobs I wanted to do. But for a long time I did and I still saw people get assigned the jobs I wanted to do.

I started to notice and it was evident that they were playing favorites. They would ask me to do this meaningless task that needed to be done because everyone else was either slow at it or just didn't do so well. So fire them or write them up? no let's just have them do the better task.

I then started to refuse these task like everyone else and was put into the position that I wanted in the first place and the new people did the task we all didn't want to do. I had a few minutes of satisfactions and then realized this may work for this job but I can't carry this habit to my career, immediately I quit.

Its not that I can't work for someone else its that I can't work somewhere that promotes bad work ethics. Life has been amazing since.

[ZachVanHarrisJR]

*@ **3:03** “I was a shytty azz employee” LMAO* 😂

[Omenxiiii]

The entrepreneurs are the kids in school that think schools a joke. I've always known that I never wanted to abide by the rules and become an average person

[artemgordon]

I felt the same way. Finished college. Had a job in college and after college. I was a great employee but I would still do things MY way. I always had trouble being bossed around simply because nobody knew my job position better than me and figured why should somebody less educated in my position tell me what to do? Now i'm a cryptocurrency and stock trader, and a personal trainer, as well as starting my PhD soon.

[jimb]

I retired from the military after 23 years in 2015. I saw guys like him who were crappy soldiers lol! They did a few years, got out and did well for themselves. I guess I was wired to be a good employee. At age 49 I finally saw the light and work for myself now. No longer work for money. It works for me. 👍