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
He's unique. I don't know if I'd say he's revolutionized it. But there are a lot of people out there who want to be like Dirk. And I think in the future, it's inevitable that you'll see more guys who are as big as Dirk and Kevin Garnett who can shoot like they can.
If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.
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 I die, I want to come back as me.
Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.
Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.
If you want to deal with me, email is the way you do it. Working via email means that everything I do is searchable. I can go back and check out discussion threads from more than 15 years ago.
If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here
Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!
I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and keep on going until I'm finished. I don't do calls. I don't do meetings.
Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered, you have to go for it.
A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.
Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.