“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
“Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.”
“There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.”
“It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.”
“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.”
“I’d rather be tired than broke!”
“Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.”
“Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It’s not about what you can dream of. That’s easy. It’s about whether or not it’s important enough to you to do the work to be ready to be successful in that business.”
“It takes time, it’s a grind. There are no shortcuts. You’ve got to grind and grind.”
“If you don’t follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.”
“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.”
“Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own.”
“Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.”
“Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!”
“Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.”
“Doesn’t matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.”
“Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.”
“The only thing in your control is effort. That’s all, and that’s everything.”
“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.”
“I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.”
“Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.”
“Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.”
“Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.”
“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.”
“It’s not in the dreaming, it’s in the doing.”
“There is no sport as competitive as business. It’s 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.”
“If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.”
“Love what you do or don’t do it.”
“Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you’re doing against other people.”
“Expect the unexpected, and always be ready – everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself.”
“Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it.”
“One thing we can all control is effort.”
“Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.”
“Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.”
“Relaxing is for the other guy.”
“Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.”
“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.”
“Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.”
“I’m always afraid of failing. It’s great motivation to work harder.”
“Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.”
“I don’t care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.”
“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.”
“Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.”
“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 .”
“Find something you love to do. If you don’t make money at it, at least you love going to work.”
“Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.”
“Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you’ve got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?”
“It’s always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.”
“There are no shortcuts. NONE.”
“Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.”
“Information is power, particularly when the competition ignores the opportunity to do the same.”
“Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right.”
“I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.”
“The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face – it’s for him to retire with a smile on his face.”
“The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don’t step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.”
“Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.”
“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.”
“In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.”
“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.”
“Business is the marketplace of ideas.”
“Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.”
“There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.”
“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.”
“Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.”
“I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I’m just telling you, when you’ve got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That’s rule No. 1 of business.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back.”
“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.”
“The reason I do Shark Tank isn’t to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well.”
“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.”
“All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.”
“While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don’t. I find it patriotic.”
“Sports, music, movies – basically, fans of any form of entertainment don’t do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.”
“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.”
“Can’t say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn’t write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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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