Top 100 Mark Cuban Quotes
#1. When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn't really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.
Dirk Nowitzki
#2. You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#3. For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.
Jason Calacanis
#4. It seems like everybody's weighing in on Trumps campaign - even Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He said that Trump is 'probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.' Then Trump was like, 'Well, at least one Cuban loves me.'
Jimmy Fallon
#5. 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
Anthony Robbins
#6. I think political people are afraid of me.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Business is the marketplace of ideas.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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.
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#11. If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.
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#12. Higher education is a business that doesn't know it's going out of business.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.
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#16. My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day.
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#17. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.
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#18. 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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#19. In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.
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#20. I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.
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#21. Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
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#22. Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.
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#26. I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.
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#27. 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.
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#28. I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.
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#31. I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
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#32. 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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#33. I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.
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#34. When I die, I want to come back as me.
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#36. As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.
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#37. Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.
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#38. The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 x 24 x 365 x forever.
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#39. 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.
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#40. I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
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#41. Everyone has got the will to win; it's only those with the will to prepare that do win.
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#42. 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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#43. Investors don't care about your dreams and goals. They love that you have them. They love that you are motivated by them. Investors care about how they are going to get their money back and then some. Family cares about your dreams. Investors care about money.
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#44. If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.
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#45. 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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#46. When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?
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#47. Information is power, particularly when the competition ignores the opportunity to do the same.
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#48. Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. To me business is a sport. I love knowing that 24x7x365xforever I'm competing with people I don't know. To build my businesses. To come up with new ideas. To come up with better ideas. That motivates me.
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#53. We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.
Mark Falcoff
#54. I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.
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#55. 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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#56. Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.
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#57. You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but the words will be all yours. You can create the context. You can make sure that all issues are addressed. You can take issue with individuals or the media as a whole. Your words, your message.
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#59. Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.
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#60. I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.
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#61. Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.
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#62. 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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#63. It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it
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#64. 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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#65. 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.
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#66. 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.
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#67. I just try to have a good time, enjoy my family, enjoy my life. I was having a blast when I was poor, and I'm having maybe a little bit more now that I've got something in the bank.
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#69. 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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#70. Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.
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#71. Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.
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#72. I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.
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#73. The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.
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#74. Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.
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#75. 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
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#76. 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.
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#77. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
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#78. Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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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#81. Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.
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#82. Rule #1: Sweat equity is the best startup capital
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#83. 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.
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#84. Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
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#85. 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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#86. There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.
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#87. Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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.
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#92. In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.
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#93. With Android I get to choose from many different products from many different phone manufacturers. With iOS, I get what Apple gives me. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's not always the best fit for my personal or business communication needs.
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#94. Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!
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#95. 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.
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#96. I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.
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#97. I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.
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#98. I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow. Any time I can help somebody, that's a good thing. It's fun. If I get to make some money at it, it's even better.
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#99. 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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#100. 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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