Success and Motivation

Mark Cuban has an interesting blog I follow and he published a great piece on how to get rich recently. The bottom line, there is not shortcut, and he's right. You need to be a bit lucky, but you have to have money to take advantage of opportunity, and that means conserving cash where possible. We spend money when we need to, but we also question our expenditures and try to ensure that we're making good choices or taking advantage of an opportunity.

He linked back to a republish of how he got going, really a four part series on Success and Motivation. He tends to make it seem like a young man's game, and in many ways it is, but it really is about sacrifice. Are you willing to give up time and other things in your life to drive forward and look for (and create) opportunities for you to grow? I was a long time ago, but I didn't do a good job of focusing on the business side. I spent too much time on the technical side, beefing up those skills and not looking for opportunities.

You also need to have an end goal of working for yourself. You might make it as a corporate guy, but I think the odds of you getting rich are better working for yourself.