Mark Cuban Quotes

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.

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

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

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems.

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

The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

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 .

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

Love what you do or don't do it.

Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!

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

If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

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

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.

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.

All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

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. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.

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

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

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.

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

Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's "supposed" to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

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.

Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

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

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

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

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

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

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.

It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

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.

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

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

Nothing can kill the future dreams and goals of a new graduate than 50k of debt like an anvil over your head. I got to Indiana University not because I visited the campus and loved everything about it. I picked Indiana University because I saw a list of the top 10 business schools and it was the cheapest.

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