Top 341 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Cuban - Page 3

There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems.

Entrepreneurs need to be reminded that it's not the job of their customers to know what they don't. In other words, your customers have a tough enough time doing their jobs. They don't spend time trying to reinvent their industries or how their jobs are performed.

Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have.

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.

Nothing can kill the future dreams and goals of a new graduate than 50k of debt like an anvil over your head. I got to Indiana University not because I visited the campus and loved everything about it. I picked Indiana University because I saw a list of the top 10 business schools and it was the cheapest.

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

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.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

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.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

You never win any games you don't play.

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.

It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.

Relaxing is for the other guy.

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

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.

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.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

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 .

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

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.

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 are cheap.

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

All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company.

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.

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

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

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.

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.

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!

Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.

If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.

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.

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.

All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

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

Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.

Love what you do or don't do it.

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it.

Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'.

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

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.