Mark Cuban, Money, Knowledge

(Attention 24 Hour Fitness Dallas: I appreciate that you think it’s a nice service to your patrons to have only hot water available for showers, but some of us are crazy, and want to take cold showers.

Luckily, there are four of your locations within (roughly) equal distance from where I’m living – one of you surely can meet my needs.)

If any of you are holdovers from my old site, you know I have a great deal of respect for Mark Cuban.

He wrote a great post yesterday about getting rich. Here is an excerpt:

Before or after work and on weekends, every single day, read everything there is to read about the business. Go to trade shows, read the trade magazines, spend a lot of time talking to the people you do business with about their business and the people they buy from.

This is not a short term project. We aren’t talking days. We aren’t talking months. We are talking years. Lots of years and maybe decades. I didn’t say this was a get rich quick scheme. This is a get rich path.

In my business, I run into so many writers, actors, and “producers” who know absolutely nothing about the actual business, it amazes me. Especially today, where every bit of information on Earth is at your fingertips, there’s no excuse for ignorance expect laziness.

Anyway, there are no jokes here, I just thought it was worth reading.

All the old cliches about “taking 15 years to become an overnight success” and “luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity” are true – I think it’s good to remember it now and then.

(Also, and related to item one, as I went to a new 24-Hour Fitness this morning. It seems like a lot of Dallas streets simply turn into other streets without announcement or fanfare of any kind.

This makes people like me get lost, and suddenly the 24 Hour Fitness isn’t (roughly) equal distance from where I’m living anymore.)