Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban is an American businessman and investor. He is the owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and is the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV. He is also a "shark" investor on the television series, Shark Tank. In 2011, Cuban wrote an e-book, How to Win at the Sport of Business, in which he chronicles his life experiences in business and sports...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth31 July 1958
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Relaxing is for the other guy.
Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?
It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.
We romanticize entrepreneurshi p so much that people don't do the work. It's not just a dream, not just a goal; it's a lot of hard work. A lot of people are wantrepreneurs, not entrepreneurs.
Love what you do or don't do it.
Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.
If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.
I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.
In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.
If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.
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.
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 think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.
I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.