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Mark Cuban Quotes
“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.”
“Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.”
“You need to turn over every rock and open every door to learn your industry. This process never ends.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For food service industry and retail, I'm for the minimum wage being increased to at least $12. Not for manufacturing. Software and robotics are going to revolutionize manufacturing in the next 10 years. In the meantime, we have to compete with overseas”
“None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.”
“Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.”
“Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.”
“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.”
“I believe in lower taxes. I believe in more efficient government. I believe in reducing bureaucracy. I believe that we shouldn't have lobbyists who can go in or former government workers who can come back and lobby.”
“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.”
“When someone has to go to the hospital because they don't have insurance - and by the way, I think the insurance companies should be out of the mix altogether - but when someone needs health care, and they don't have the ability to pay for it, in our”
“If I ran as a Dem, I know I could beat Hillary Clinton. And if it was me vs. Trump, I would crush him. No doubt about it.”
“I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.”
“I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.”
“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.”
“I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.”
“I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was going to Barcelona on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream Team Quarterfinals.”
“Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they want to be made happy. Listen to them. Make them happy. But don't rely on them to create the future road map for your product or service. That's your job.”
“The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.”
“When I die, I want to come back as me.”
“I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.”
“After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.”
“My guiding principle and motivation was that I wanted to retire by the time I turned 35. There actually are two books that I bought and still have - Paul Terhost's 'Cashing In On the American Dream: How to Retire at 35' and Andrew Tobias's 'The Only”
“I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.”
“Culture is very important to the Mavs. Your best player has to be a fit for what you want the culture of the team to be. He has to be someone who leads by example. Someone who sets the tone in the locker room and on the court. It isn't about who talks the”
“I have always been selling. I always had something going on. That was just my nature.”
“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”
“Nice goes much further than mean.”
“In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.”
“Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on deep learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation.”
“Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.”
“I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.”
“To be a billionaire, you have got to get lucky.”
“Sweat equity is the best equity.”
“We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.”
“I'm not a fan of giving to charities. I have a few I support, but the overhead and inefficiencies really bother me. Instead, I pay people's bills and help solve problems.”
“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.”
“I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.”
“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.”
“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”
“Owning a popular sports team is very different than any other type of business. They don't throw parades when Apple has the biggest quarter in corporate history. People don't call and email asking for anyone from the team to come visit their sick child.”
“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.”
“Donald Trump has got unlimited number of insecurities. But the No. 1 one thing, I would say, is his insecurity with his intellect. There's a reason why he always refers to where he went to college and, you know, that, 'I'm a smart person.' You know, it”
“Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.”
“When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?”
“I grew up in a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how to lay carpet because she was concerned about my future. Nobody had high hopes for me. But I was a hustler.”
“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.”
“I love entrepreneurship because that's what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.”
“If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.”
“There are a lot of things I suck at. I'm not organized. I have to have partners and people around me who dot my i's and cross my t's. I'm sloppy. I'm a ready-fire-aim guy. I need to have people around me who aren't.”
“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”
“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.”
“I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.”
“With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of”
“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.”
“'Shark Tank' is fun, but it's all business. We use our own money, and the competition between the sharks is fierce. More importantly, it's an opportunity to invest in businesses that are being watched and considered by millions of people every time it's”
“There's no law against stupid - I learned that a long time ago.”
