Top 200 Mark Cuban Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Everyone tells you how they are going to be “special”, but few do the work to get there. Do the work.”

— Mark Cuban

152. “Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.”

— Mark Cuban

153. “You’ve got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don’t always correlate as highly as people would like.”

— Mark Cuban

154. “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

155. “I’ve learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.”

— Mark Cuban

156. “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

157. “The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don’t.”

— Mark Cuban

158. “One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself standout. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths.”

— Mark Cuban

159. “In the past people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I’m wrong I’m wrong. People are afraid to put out their opinions and get push back.”

— Mark Cuban

160. “I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.”

— Mark Cuban

161. “We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble – and that’s where the real bubble is – and the tuition bubble, we don’t have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic.”

— Mark Cuban

162. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

163. “When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.”

— Mark Cuban

164. “Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.”

— Mark Cuban

165. “Only morons start a business on a loan?”

— Mark Cuban

166. “If you’ve got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you’re better off paying off any debt you have because that’s a guaranteed return.”

— Mark Cuban

167. “I can turn an idea into a business before you know it’s going to be important. My first step will blow by you.”

— Mark Cuban

168. “When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media’s habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.”

— Mark Cuban

169. “I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk – replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of – is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.”

— Mark Cuban

170. “YouTube has gotten so big that you’re not a standard unless YouTube adopts you. And that’s a big fight.”

— Mark Cuban

171. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

172. “Ideas are easy. I’ve never met a single person who didn’t think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.”

— Mark Cuban

173. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

174. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

175. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

176. “Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.”

— Mark Cuban

177. “I daydreamed for motivation. I didn’t lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.”

— Mark Cuban

178. “If I didn’t like you, I could take any or all of what I found and invent a context that lost you your job, your relationships, your degree. People are so vulnerable online and they don’t realize it. That is scary to me.”

— Mark Cuban

179. “Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their life. Rather than pursue every thing they possibly can to prepare themselves to enable their idea or special talent, they tend to wing it and make excuses.”

— Mark Cuban

180. “In today’s world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders.”

— Mark Cuban

181. “Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.”

— Mark Cuban

182. “Communicate with your fans or customers. They know we live in an ever changing world. If you tell them what you are thinking and why you are doing what you do, as I did with my blog regarding Nash leaving, they will respect and support you more.”

— Mark Cuban

183. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

184. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

185. “I think political people are afraid of me.”

— Mark Cuban

186. “If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.”

— Mark Cuban

187. “I’m a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.”

— Mark Cuban

188. “I had been in the technology business for so long, I had seen the PC-bubble come and burst, I had seen the local area and wide area networking-bubble come and burst, it was no shock that the internet-bubble was going to burst.”

— Mark Cuban

189. “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

190. “Sometimes the best properties aren’t necessarily the biggest properties.”

— Mark Cuban

191. “Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.”

— Mark Cuban

192. “If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.”

— Mark Cuban

193. “Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.”

— Mark Cuban

194. “I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.”

— Mark Cuban

195. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

196. “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.”

— Mark Cuban

197. “You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.”

— Mark Cuban

198. “If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I’m selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here.”

— Mark Cuban

199. “I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.”

— Mark Cuban

200. “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.”

— Mark Cuban