Mark Cuban Quotes

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Mark Cuban

Profession : Businessman

Birth : July 31, 1958

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

Mark Cuban

With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of providing that care. That makes no sense.

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I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

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I'm not cut out for politics.

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I had a Taco Bell audition where I had to wear a huge sombrero and walk around like an idiot. I got call-backs for the movie 'Twister,' did small independent stuff that I won't name. But it led to all my breakthrough moments on 'Entourage.'

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Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values.

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I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming majors and maybe even engineering, because when the data is all being spit out for you, options are being spit out for you, you need a different perspective in order to have a different view of the data.

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I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was going to Barcelona on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream Team Quarterfinals.

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What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

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I'm not a fan of giving to charities. I have a few I support, but the overhead and inefficiencies really bother me. Instead, I pay people's bills and help solve problems.

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There are a lot of things I suck at. I'm not organized. I have to have partners and people around me who dot my i's and cross my t's. I'm sloppy. I'm a ready-fire-aim guy. I need to have people around me who aren't.

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When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

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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.

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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.

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Part of the bigger problem with Donald Trump is, when you sit and talk to him one-on-one, he's reasonable, he comes across as caring, he's open-minded, but then, all of that just is thrown out the window when he tweets and when he communicates with the media - and when he communicates at all.

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Staying true to who I am was tougher when I first got wealthy. Having great friends kept me grounded.

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I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

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Nice goes much further than mean.

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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.

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I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.

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