Why Mark Cuban and Jeff Bezos both value taking risks
Jeff Bezos
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos agree: It pays to take risks.
" Jeff Bezos  — and I follow this to a T — I was reading   he  said  'Look  you don't want to be [80] years old and look back and ask yourself ... why didn't I do this? Why didn't I try it?" Cuban says.
While speaking at the Summit Series conference in Los Angeles   Bezos  revealed  he  was indeed thinking something similar when  he  quit  his  good job on Wall Street to found Amazon.
"For me  the best way to think about it was to project  myself  forward to age 80 "  Bezos  says. "When I'm 80 years old  I want to have minimized the number of regrets that I have. I don't want to be 80 years old  in a quiet moment of reflection thinking back over my life  and cataloging a bunch of major regrets.
"I decided I had to give it a shot "  Bezos  says in a 2010 baccalaureate address at Princeton. "I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all."
Cuban  worth $3.3 billion  agrees that pushing  himself  to experience new things has been worth it.
"Maybe it will come back to haunt me  all the fun I've had  but I've had fun "  he  says.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos agree: It pays to take risks.
" [TGT]— and I follow this to a T — I was reading   he  said  'Look  you don't want to be [80] years old and look back and ask yourself ... why didn't I do this? Why didn't I try it?" Cuban says.
While speaking at the Summit Series conference in Los Angeles   [TGT]revealed  he  was indeed thinking something similar when  he  quit  his  good job on Wall Street to found Amazon.
"For me  the best way to think about it was to project  myself  forward to age 80 "  [TGT]says. "When I'm 80 years old  I want to have minimized the number of regrets that I have. I don't want to be 80 years old  in a quiet moment of reflection thinking back over my life  and cataloging a bunch of major regrets.
"I decided I had to give it a shot [TGT]says in a 2010 baccalaureate address at Princeton. "I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all."
Cuban  worth $3.3 billion  agrees that pushing  himself  to experience new things has been worth it.
"Maybe it will come back to haunt me  all the fun I've had  but I've had fun "  he  says.
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