Mark Cuban Quotes

Sometimes the best properties aren't necessarily the biggest properties.

If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.

If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

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

If I can do it, you can do it.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

The new moron in town is Chad Ford of ESPN.

My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

Relaxing is for the other guy.

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

I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.

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

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

Rule #1: Sweat equity is the best startup capital

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

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

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here

Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

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

Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.

In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.

It's not the dreaming, it's the doing.

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.

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

Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.

I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.

Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.

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

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

I didnt know I was mad about anything. I guess if the New York Times says I am, I must be.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

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

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.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

I know I'm prejudiced, and I know I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways,

I'm scared shitless of heights.

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.

All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company.

Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

You never win any games you don't play.

Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

When I die, I want to come back as me.

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

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

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

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up.

One thing we can all control is effort

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.

Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

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

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

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

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

Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

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

Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

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

I had taken a few classes in real-world business and got paid for it instead of paying tuition,

Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it.