What advice does Mark Cuban give young people who want to become millionaires?

Mark Cuban said the big misconceptions are that you must raise money and that sales numbers matter more than profit. Micro Solutions, he said, was profitable every month of its eight years. His advice is to get great at one thing, which happens where you spend your time rather than where your passion is, and to aim for the millions most successful people make, not a Silicon Valley billion.

• Cuban tells new graduates to skip the hunt for a perfect job, take any job and become very good at it.
• Cuban said learning to sell door to door, as he did with garbage bags at 12, means you have a job for life.
• Cuban told his 17-year-old son that get-rich-quick schemes on social media would not be advertised if they worked.

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“Just get a job. And when you have a job, just work to be really good at it.” Mark Cuban · at 20:14 — open in the transcript →

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett (2026-10-26). Read the whole episode summary →

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