Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban is an American businessman and investor. He is the owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and is the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV. He is also a "shark" investor on the television series, Shark Tank. In 2011, Cuban wrote an e-book, How to Win at the Sport of Business, in which he chronicles his life experiences in business and sports...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth31 July 1958
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.
Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.
On the Internet, there are an unlimited number of competitors. Anybody with a Flip camera is your competition. What makes it even worse is that YouTube is willing to subsidize the cost of your bandwidth. So anybody can create and distribute for free basically, but the real cost is marketing. And that's always the big cost - how do you stand out and what's the cost of standing out? And there's no limit to that cost.
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.
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.
Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.
Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.
Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.
Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company.
Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right.
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 comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?