Top 100 Mark Cuban Quotes
#1. I think political people are afraid of me.
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#2. Business is the marketplace of ideas.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.
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#6. My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
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#9. Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.
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#10. 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.
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#11. Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.
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#12. I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
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#13. 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.
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#14. I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.
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#15. When I die, I want to come back as me.
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#16. Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?
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#17. If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.
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#18. Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.
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#19. 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 .
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#20. The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365.
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#21. Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.
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#23. Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.
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#24. Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.
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#26. I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.
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#27. The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.
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#28. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#34. The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.
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#40. 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.
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#41. I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.
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#42. Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it.
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#43. If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.
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#47. You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.
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#51. I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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
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#58. I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
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#59. It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
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#60. I retired at twenty-nine, bought a life-time pass on American Airlines and my only goal in life was to party like a mad man and get drunk with as many people as possible. And I was happy right there. But when we started the streaming business, I knew it could be something big.
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#61. 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.
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#62. I know I'm prejudiced, and I know I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways,
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#63. You never win any games you don't play.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right.
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#66. I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.
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#67. Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'.
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#68. Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.
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#69. 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?'
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#70. Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.
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#71. It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.
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#72. Most people think money is the key to reducing risk. Prepartion is.
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#73. Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.
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#74. Sometimes the best properties aren't necessarily the biggest properties.
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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.
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#78. I had taken a few classes in real-world business and got paid for it instead of paying tuition,
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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.
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#81. 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.
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#82. When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.
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#83. I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.
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#84. You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.
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#85. Only morons start a business on a loan?
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#86. 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.
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#87. Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.
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#88. If you want to deal with me, email is the way you do it. Working via email means that everything I do is searchable. I can go back and check out discussion threads from more than 15 years ago.
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#89. 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.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.
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#92. Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.
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#93. Sales is the most important aspect of a company, which in turn is about how well you treat your customer and stay ahead of your customer's requirements.
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#94. Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.
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#95. Never settle. There is no need to rush.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.
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#98. Never settle. There is no reason to rush.
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#99. Relaxing is for the other guy. I may be sitting in front of the TV, but I'm not watching it unless I think there is something I can learn from it. I'm thinking about things I can use in my business and the TV is just there.
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#100. 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.
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