Mark Cuban Quotes & Sayings

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. — Mark Cuban

Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot. — Mark Cuban

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

Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate. — Mark Cuban

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. — Mark Cuban

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

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

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

What I've learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you'll find that you put the time in. You won't just ask somebody if it's a good idea, you'll go figure out if it's a good idea. — Mark Cuban

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

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. — Mark Cuban

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

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. — Mark Cuban

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

In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders — Mark Cuban

Tech stocks were the cubic zirconium of the market. They looked good and were sexy, but they just were a way for the company selling them to make money. That's always going to be transient in terms of the stock market. What's real is that companies have to compete. Technology used well is a great tool to enable that if only because most companies dont use technologies well. — Mark Cuban

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. — Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price. — Mark Cuban

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 — Mark Cuban

Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them. Pay up for people in your core competencies. Get the best. Outside the core competencies, hire people that fit your culture but aren't as expensive to pay. — Mark Cuban

I just started a business called HDNet. There never is one area that has a door open to everyone. Try to find an area with something you love to do and do it. It's a lot easier to work hard and prepare when you love what you are doing. — Mark Cuban

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. — Mark Cuban

We don't sell wins or losses. The one thing you can't control in sports is which games you are going to win or which games you are going to lose. But what I could control was the experience the fans have. — Mark Cuban

Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make. — Mark Cuban

I think political people are afraid of me. — Mark Cuban

It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck ... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it. — Mark Cuban

What makes a good salesperson? Let me be clear that it's not the person who can talk someone into anything. It's not the hustler who is a smooth talker. The best salespeople are the ones who put themselves in their customer's shoes and provide a solution that makes the customer happy. — Mark Cuban

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

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass. — Mark Cuban

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

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. — Mark Cuban

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

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves? Even when you get to be a chess master, there are other chess masters you want to beat or outperform. And to me business is just a sport that I love to compete in; a continuous intellectual challenge that really motivates me. — Mark Cuban

There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage. — Mark Cuban

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 — Mark Cuban

I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass. — Mark Cuban

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done. — Mark Cuban

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

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. — Mark Cuban

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

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

All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. — Mark Cuban

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

Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their life. Rather than pursue every thing they possibly can to prepare themselves to enable their idea or special talent, they tend to wing it and make excuses. — Mark Cuban

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

Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business. — Mark Cuban

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story. — Mark Cuban

One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day. — Mark Cuban

To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I knew I would end up owning my own business someday, so I figured my challenge was to learn as much as anyone about all businesses. I believed that every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. I spent as much time as I could, learning and reading everything about business I could get my hands on. I used to go into the library for hours and hours reading business books and magazines. — Mark Cuban

My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day. — Mark Cuban

We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason. — Mark Cuban

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there. — Mark Cuban

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. — Mark Cuban

We romanticize entrepreneurshi p so much that people don't do the work. It's not just a dream, not just a goal; it's a lot of hard work. A lot of people are wantrepreneurs, not entrepreneurs. — Mark Cuban

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. — Mark Cuban

Business is the marketplace of ideas. — Mark Cuban

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

If I didn't like you, I could take any or all of what I found and invent a context that lost you your job, your relationships, your degree. People are so vulnerable online and they don't realize it. That is scary to me. — Mark Cuban

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

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. — Mark Cuban

If it had anything to do with the PC or networking industry I was on top of it. I bought manuals. I read every book and magazine. Then I would get involved with industry conferences and put myself out there. — Mark Cuban

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business. — Mark Cuban

It's not the dreaming, it's the doing. — Mark Cuban

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

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. — Mark Cuban

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

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

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

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. — Mark Cuban

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice. — Mark Cuban

Never settle. There is no need to rush. — Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are. — Mark Cuban

Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right. — Mark Cuban

Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right. — Mark Cuban

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don't use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you . — Mark Cuban

It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who wants balance in their life, there is a guy like me who gives up a lot to make their dreams come true. There is always going to be someone out there that knows they have to compensate for maybe having less talent with harder work and preparation. — Mark Cuban

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

Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal. — Mark Cuban

I don't think people realize the risks they face every time they create a text, or post on a social network. Unless you expressly make the effort, everything you do online, including texting, has a shelf life of forever. — Mark Cuban

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face. — Mark Cuban

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. — Mark Cuban

I think you've got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It's a very, very slippery slope. — Mark Cuban

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

I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and keep on going until I'm finished. I don't do calls. I don't do meetings. — Mark Cuban

I'm a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not. — Mark Cuban

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. — Mark Cuban

If I can do it, you can do it. — Mark Cuban

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

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

The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there. — Mark Cuban

In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up. — Mark Cuban

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do. — Mark Cuban

Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes. — Mark Cuban

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. — Mark Cuban

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

If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, I'm walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of. — Mark Cuban

I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere. — Mark Cuban

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

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization. — Mark Cuban

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