Quotes from Mark Cuban

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

Only morons start a business on a loan?

Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

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

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.

There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

It doesn't matter where you live...It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear.

Whatever you can say in a meeting, you can put in an email. If I have questions, I'll tell you via email.

Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?

Traditional TV will have to innovate their TV delivery software in new ways beyond just offering their content in an app in order to change the viewing erosion of TV.

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.

The beauty of success, whether it's finding the girl of your dreams, the right job or financial success, is that it doesn't matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.

Higher education is a business that doesn't know it's going out of business.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.

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

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.