506 Quotes by Mark Cuban

To me business is a sport. I love knowing that 24x7x365xforever I’m competing with people I don’t know. To build my businesses. To come up with new ideas. To come up with better ideas. That motivates me.

You never win any games you don’t play.

I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don’t let anyone pinch me, because I don’t want to wake up.

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It’s been very profitable and entertaining for me.

I love helping entrepreneurs. It’s something I really have fun doing. It’s like planting a little seed and watching it grow. Any time I can help somebody, that’s a good thing. It’s fun. If I get to make some money at it, it’s even better.

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.

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.

I create offbeat advice; I don’t follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It’s an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.