Mark Cuban Quotes - Page 4

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• Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.

  Mark Cuban

  Years, Business Relationship, Deals

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.102, Diversion Books

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• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• 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

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• With every effort, I learned a lot. With every mistake and failure, not only mine, but of those around me, I learned what not to do. I also got to study the success of those I did business with as well. I had more than a healthy dose of fear, and an unlimited amount of hope, and more importantly, no limit on time and effort.

  Mark Cuban

  Success, Mistake, Effort

  Article by Mark Cuban, blogmaverick.com. May 30, 2005.

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• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Important, Requirements, Treats

  Source: elitedaily.com

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• 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

  Inspiring, Entrepreneur, Debt

  "10 Tips Mark Cuban Would Give His Younger Self" by Drew Hendricks, www.inc.com.

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• My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even take the time to read a fiction book. It was all about work. When I sold it, I promised myself I would never wear a watch and only wear a suit to weddings, funerals and to meet the President.

  Mark Cuban

  Book, Vacation, Years

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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

  Mark Cuban

  Media, Vision, Trying

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• 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.

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• 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

  Encouragement, Business, Thinking

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• 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

  Lying, People, Way

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• One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. You may think you are more talented then the next guy. Which is exactly what the next guy thinks as well. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself stand out. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths. Always remember that no matter how many times you get shot down, you will get smarter, better and you only have to be right once to be successful.

  Mark Cuban

  Lying, Successful, Thinking

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• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Glasses, Water

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• 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

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

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• I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

  Mark Cuban

  Motivation, Struggle, Sleep

  "9 Business Lessons That Will Eliminate Your Doubts Forever" by Gordon Tredgold, www.inc.com. November 20, 2017.

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• 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

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• Most people think money is the key to reducing risk. Prepartion is.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, Keys, People

  "Preparation is the key to cutting risk, Cuban says". Interview with Del Jones, www.usatoday.com. September 19, 2004.

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• Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, Work Out, Expectations

  "Mark Cuban Reveals The Best And Worst 'Shark Tank' Pitches And More". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2013.

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• Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

  Mark Cuban

  Money, People, Scoreboard

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• A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

  "Interview: Mark Cuban, Businessman". Interview with Scott McKenzie, slushpile.net. March 9, 2006.

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• The beauty of success, whether it’s finding the girl of your dreams, the right job or financial success, is that it doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.

  Mark Cuban

  Girl, Dream, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Mark Cuban from Apr 29, 2015

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• I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspire, World, Want

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• 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.

  Mark Cuban

  Order, Years, Luck

  "Shark Tank's Mark Cuban talks making deals and beating the shit out of people". Interview with Kenneth Arthur, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• 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.

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• I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

  Mark Cuban

  Funny, Stupid, Nba

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