Mark Cuban Quotes

The beauty of success, whether it’s finding the girl of your dreams, the right job or financial success, is that it doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.

Most people think money is the key to reducing risk. Prepartion is.

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

I think political people are afraid of me.

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion.

Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

One thing we can all control is effort

You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.

Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

Only morons start a business on a loan?

Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?

I'm scared shitless of heights.

YouTube has gotten so big that you're not a standard unless YouTube adopts you. And that's a big fight.

I just try to have a good time, enjoy my family, enjoy my life. I was having a blast when I was poor, and I'm having maybe a little bit more now that I've got something in the bank.

Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

As far as businesses, I was always hustling. I had to pay for my own school. I got 20 bucks every week or 2 from my dad and that was it. So I had a "whatever it took" attitude.

Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.

I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.

Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders

The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.

It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

I have some very special guests tonight, and I would like to give a big welcome to the Wayne State men and women's rugby team for coming to the game tonight and to be on my TV Show

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.