Mark Cuban Quotes - Page 9

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

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

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.

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.

I know I'm prejudiced and I know I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways.

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

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.

Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves? Even when you get to be a chess master, there are other chess masters you want to beat or outperform. And to me business is just a sport that I love to compete in; a continuous intellectual challenge that really motivates me.

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

Information is power. Particularly when the competition ignores the opportunity to do the same.

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

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.

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

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.

If I can do it, you can do it.

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

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

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

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.

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.

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.

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.