Quotes from Mark Cuban

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

Culture is very important to the Mavs. Your best player has to be a fit for what you want the culture of the team to be. He has to be someone who leads by example. Someone who sets the tone in the locker room and on the court. It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

Entrepreneurs need to be reminded that it's not the job of their customers to know what they don't. In other words, your customers have a tough enough time doing their jobs. They don't spend time trying to reinvent their industries or how their jobs are performed.

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

In the past, people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.

For food service industry and retail, I'm for the minimum wage being increased to at least $12. Not for manufacturing. Software and robotics are going to revolutionize manufacturing in the next 10 years. In the meantime, we have to compete with overseas manufacturing.

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

The people I don't like to work with are people like me. I need people who can complement my skill set, people who can do the nitty gritty with me.

Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.

Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.

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

Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn't live perfect lives could never run.

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.

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.

If I ran as a Dem, I know I could beat Hillary Clinton. And if it was me vs. Trump, I would crush him. No doubt about it.

Donald Trump I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw him.