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
Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.
I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.
Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.
Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business.
Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.
The change has been in place, this has been an extension of it. Under the new rules, flexibility is at a premium as opposed to our approach in years past to accumulate assets to trade. That doesn't work anymore.
We both went to school at Indiana University and we were big basketball fans. Living in Dallas, there was no way to listen to our favorite Hoosiers.
With Nellie, we tried it the other way. Nellie was brilliant for what he did, but for whatever reason, it didn't work. All of our guys want to win a championship, and this is a system they understand and buy into. We've got guys who might not be great defenders, but they work hard at that end. Now, we're more geared to play defense.
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?
We appreciate the effort Doug gave us. He went through a lot to get back. Unfortunately, it didn't work out.
We're rocking the film festival. If you've seen a movie, you've seen one of ours,
Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.
Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.
You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.