Mark Cuban Quotes

Relaxing is for the other guy.

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.

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.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

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

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.

When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not

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

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

The stock market's handling of new technology is kind of a joke. We have seen CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg, and the like turn into home-shopping networks for stocks. Fund managers and analysts go on TV and sell what's shiny and easy to sell.

Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.

Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

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 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.

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.

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.

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

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

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

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

Only morons start a business on a loan?

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

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

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

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.

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

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

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.

As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual.

You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see yourself and what your own dreams are. And, you know, anybody who started a business and build a business knows there's going to be lots of times when you feel beaten down and you need some motivation and that's when I turn to that book among others.

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 are cheap.

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

What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

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

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

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.

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.

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

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.

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.

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

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

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.

Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.

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.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.