Quotes from Mark Cuban

Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they want to be made happy. Listen to them. Make them happy. But don't rely on them to create the future road map for your product or service. That's your job.

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

I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

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.

Every job in a company is important. Unless you experience a wide range of those jobs, I don't think you are as well prepared to start and run a company as you could be.

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

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

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

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.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

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

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.

Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

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.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.

I knew how to sell. I felt confident I could run a business. I was willing to outwork anyone. I wasn't afraid to live like a student on next to nothing. So that meant I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.