Best Mark Cuban Quotes

Mark Cuban Quotes About Success, Shark Tank, Money, Business, Work Like, Sales, Investing & Time! Mark Cuban is an American entrepreneur, investor, writer, television personality, and humanitarian. He is well-known in all of these fields. On July 31, 1958, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Mark Cuban was born. When he was younger, he attended ‘Mount Lebanon High School’ in Pennsylvania. Growing up as a kid, he could make money by taking on part-time work.

After finishing high school, Mark Cuban joined the ‘University of Pittsburg.’ After a year, he changed schools to ‘Indiana University in Bloomington. As of 1981, he had earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Even though he started his career modestly, he has now gone on to build enterprises in various sectors, including software, film distribution, investing in social startup firms, and owning the NBA basketball franchise ‘Dallas Mavericks.

Most of his enterprises were launched at the height of the internet boom, which he stands to benefit tremendously. Mark Cuban is known for his outspokenness, both on and off camera, and his ability to speak his mind without restraint. This has gotten him into problems in the past. He is a massive admirer of Ayn Rand, a Russian-American author. “

According to him, The Fountainhead encouraged him to think on his own terms, take chances to accomplish great things in life, and hold himself accountable for his failures. He is continuously looking for new trends and technologies that might aid boost his commercial enterprises, having built his fortune on his own. Although Mark Cuban gave a lot of money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in 2012, he was doing so to support their work as a legal charity.

Best Mark Cuban Quotes

1. Creating opportunities means looking where others are not. – Mark Cuban

2. It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once. – Mark Cuban

3. Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do. – Mark Cuban

4. I create offbeat advice; I don’t follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments. – Mark Cuban

5. Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you’re doing against other people. – Mark Cuban

6. Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it. – Mark Cuban

7. Find something you love to do. If you don’t make money at it, at least you love going to work. – Mark Cuban

8. The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365. – Mark Cuban

9. The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson, or anyone in any position can control is their effort. – Mark Cuban

10. Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you. – Mark Cuban

11. 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. – Mark Cuban

12. 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

13. When you’ve got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? – Mark Cuban

14. I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.
It’s not in the dreaming, it’s in the doing. – Mark Cuban

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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. – Mark Cuban

18. 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. – Mark Cuban

19. There are always going to be things we love to do. That we dream about doing. That we really, really want to do with our lives. Those passions aren’t worth a nickel. – Mark Cuban

20. I’m a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not. – Mark Cuban

21. 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. – Mark Cuban

22. It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone… And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.
We are acting in the best interests of shareholders. – Mark Cuban

23. 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. – Mark Cuban

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

25. 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. – Mark Cuban

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

27. 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. – Mark Cuban

28. 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. – Mark Cuban

29. Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession. – Mark Cuban

30. 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. – Mark Cuban