Mark Cuban quotes

Mark Cuban is an American businessman, investor, and television personality, widely recognized as the owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. His entrepreneurial ventures span technology, media, and sports. He is also famous for his role as a "shark" investor on the TV show Shark Tank. Here are 43 of his quotes:

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 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me. (Mark Cuban)
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. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think political people are afraid of me. View quote
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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. (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. View quote
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I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are. View quote
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Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people. View quote
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When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? View quote
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