Mark Cuban quotes:

Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.

If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

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.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

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.

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.

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

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.

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

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 worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

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

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.

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.

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

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.

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

What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

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.

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.

The new moron in town is Chad Ford of ESPN.com.

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

It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be.

We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble - and that's where the real bubble is - and the tuition bubble, we don't have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but the words will be all yours. You can create the context. You can make sure that all issues are addressed. You can take issue with individuals or the media as a whole. Your words, your message.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day.

The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.

Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.

With Android I get to choose from many different products from many different phone manufacturers. With iOS, I get what Apple gives me. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's not always the best fit for my personal or business communication needs.

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

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.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.

Only morons start a business on a loan?

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.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

Never settle. There is no need to rush.

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

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 you hit send on a text or tweet, you lose ownership of it - but you don't lose responsibility. Every text you have sent may have been saved and could be out there waiting to be used in ways you didn't imagine. Even the most simple of posts can be used out of context, often unintentionally, and change your future.

When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not.

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

I don't think people realize the risks they face every time they create a text, or post on a social network. Unless you expressly make the effort, everything you do online, including texting, has a shelf life of forever.

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

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.

We all know or have read about someone who has been burned on social media. We have taught our kids not to post pictures publicly that could impact their future, but we have not yet taught ourselves that texts, messages and social media posts could be used just as maliciously or with as much downside as pictures.

Nothing can kill the future dreams and goals of a new graduate than 50k of debt like an anvil over your head. I got to Indiana University not because I visited the campus and loved everything about it. I picked Indiana University because I saw a list of the top 10 business schools and it was the cheapest.

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass.

Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.

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.

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.

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

What I've learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you'll find that you put the time in. You won't just ask somebody if it's a good idea, you'll go figure out if it's a good idea.

A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it's okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they're out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.

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.

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

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

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

As far as businesses, I was always hustling. I had to pay for my own school. I got 20 bucks every week or 2 from my dad and that was it. So I had a "whatever it took" attitude.

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual.

Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

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

Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

Communicate with your fans or customers. They know we live in an ever changing world. If you tell them what you are thinking and why you are doing what you do, as I did with my blog regarding Nash leaving, they will respect and support you more.

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend. On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.

Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.

Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

Do it because you love it. Then it's not a job. I'm a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

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

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their life. Rather than pursue every thing they possibly can to prepare themselves to enable their idea or special talent, they tend to wing it and make excuses.

Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'.

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.

Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it. There are always going to be things we love to do. That we dream about doing. That we really, really want to do with our lives. Those passions aren't worth a nickel.

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

Expect the unexpected, and always be ready - everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself.

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.

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

I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.