Top 200 Mark Cuban Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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?”

— Mark Cuban

103. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

104. “You never win any games you don’t play.”

— Mark Cuban

105. “Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.”

— Mark Cuban

106. “One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you’re doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don’t do this.”

— Mark Cuban

107. “It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That’s the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.”

— Mark Cuban

108. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

109. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

110. “I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.”

— Mark Cuban

111. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

112. “If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn’t write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.”

— Mark Cuban

113. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

114. “It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it.”

— Mark Cuban

115. “Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.”

— Mark Cuban

116. “All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.”

— Mark Cuban

117. “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

118. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

119. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

120. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

121. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

122. “Most people think money is the key to reducing risk. Prepartion is.”

— Mark Cuban

123. “Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.”

— Mark Cuban

124. “In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.”

— Mark Cuban

125. “You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.”

— Mark Cuban

126. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

127. “My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It’s been very profitable and entertaining for me.”

— Mark Cuban

128. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

129. “I didnt know I was mad about anything. I guess if the New York Times says I am, I must be.”

— Mark Cuban

130. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

131. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

132. “Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are – not what other people want you to be.”

— Mark Cuban

133. “I’m the one guy who says don’t force the stupid people to be quiet – I want to know who the morons are.”

— Mark Cuban

134. “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?’”

— Mark Cuban

135. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

136. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

137. “When I die, I want to come back as me.”

— Mark Cuban

138. “My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day.”

— Mark Cuban

139. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

140. “In my opinion, right now there’s way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.”

— Mark Cuban

141. “Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it. 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

142. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

143. “Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.”

— Mark Cuban

144. “I’m scared shitless of heights.”

— Mark Cuban

145. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

146. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

147. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

148. “I create offbeat advice; I don’t follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.”

— Mark Cuban

149. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

150. “I don’t think there’s any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.”

— Mark Cuban