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At Age 25 Mark Cuban Learned Lessons About Leadership That Changed His Life (Repost)

When something is this good, it is a crime NOT to share it! By  Mark Cuban At age 24, I left  Indiana  and hit the road in my 1977 Fiat X19. I was on my way to  Dallas . The car had a hole in the floorboard. It needed oil every 60 miles. Some college buddies of mine had told me to come to Dallas–that the weather was great, that there were jobs and that the women were amazing. I didn’t hear the first two pieces, but I definitely heard the third. But let me back up a bit. I’d been in Indiana for a few months, working at a place called Tronics 2000. Before that, I’d been in  Pittsburgh , my hometown, where I joined Mellon Bank after graduating from Indiana University in 1980 at 22. Back then a lot of smaller regional banks still did everything on paper. Mellon had a department that went in and converted them to computerized systems. That’s what I did. A lot of my peers at Mellon were just happy to have a job. I wanted to be more entrepreneurial. I took the initiative. I u