Mark Cuban took off his watch the day he became a millionaire: ‘I wanted to be able to control my own time’
Source: Fortune ·
The now-billionaire said his first big payday wasn’t about luxury. It was about getting control of his own time.
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When Mark Cuban became a millionaire, his first move wasn’t to buy something luxurious. It was to get rid of something. “The day I sold MicroSolutions, I took off my watch and I said, ‘I’m never going to wear a watch again because that means I’m working on somebody else’s time,’” Cuban said on a recent episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. He made about $2 million from selling that software company in 1990—a move that launched him on his path to major career success. Cuban, 68, is now worth an estimated $10.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. But he told Bartlett that getting that rich was never really the goal. “I just thought I hated being broke,” Cuban said. “I wanted to control my own destiny. That was a big thing, and I wanted to be able to control my own time.” His parents never had that option, he said: “They always were obligated to somebody else. They had to show up at work.” The former Shark Tank star has relaxed his watch rule…