Mark Cuban Quotes About Business

Quotes about: Business

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

  Mark Cuban

  Success, Encouragement, Business

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.81, Diversion Books

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

  Mark Cuban

  Motivational, Success, Smile

• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Motivation, Business, Somewhere Else

  "Mark Cuban: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2008.

• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Business

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.83, Diversion Books

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

  Mark Cuban

  Motivational, Business, Connections

• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  "Mark Cuban: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2008.

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

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Life Changing, Treats

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.72, Diversion Books

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

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Good Week, Starting Week

• The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Business, Nba

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

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Opportunity, People

  "The Best And Worst Things About Being A Billionaire: A Q&A With Mark Cuban". Interview with Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. February 9, 2012.

• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Shoes, Problem

  FaceBook post by Mark Cuban from Apr 28, 2015

• 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

  Inspiring, Success, Business

  "Mark Cuban's Tips For Succeeding In Business". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. October 21, 2011.

• If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Inspiration, Winning

  "Mark Cuban: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2008.

• A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it's okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they're out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Success, Business

  "How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It". Book by Mark Cuban, November 20, 2011.

• Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Black And White, Entrepreneur

• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Nice, Educational

• The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Nba, Good Week

• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Dream, Business

• 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

  Business, Hard Work, Doors

  "Mark Cuban: America’s Coolest Billionaire". Interview with Daniel Jimenez, finance.youngmoney.com. 2008.

• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Hard Work, Goal

• 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

  Business, Failing, Managers

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.97, Diversion Books

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

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Business, Challenges

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.69, Diversion Books

• Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences.
  There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend.
  On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Friendship, Business

• 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

  Business, Inspiration, Winning

  "Mark Cuban: America’s Coolest Billionaire". Interview with Daniel Jimenez, finance.youngmoney.com. 2008.

• 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

  Business, Writing, Bills

  "Get rich, pay taxes: it's a patriotic duty" by Mark Cuban, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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