Zitat des Tages von Mark Cuban:
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.
After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.
When I die, I want to come back as me.
I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.
Nice goes much further than mean.
When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.
With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of providing that care. That makes no sense.
I would rather have the costs of consumer goods and restaurants - products we as consumers can choose to buy or not buy - go up and the need for public services go down.
I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.
I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.
I'm a competitive person. Business is a much more competitive sport than any real sport. It's 24x7x365. I'm a business adrenaline junky.
Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on deep learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation.
I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.
The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
I was born to sell it as a kid. I think it's partially innate, and partly it's because my parents were always very clear: if I needed anything that wasn't a necessity, I was going to have to save my money and buy it myself. That meant not only did I have to buy basketball shoes, but I had to figure out how to pay for college as well.
I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.
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.
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. Unfortunately, you don't lose responsibility for that text or post.
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.
Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.
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.
The people I don't like to work with are people like me. I need people who can complement my skill set, people who can do the nitty gritty with me.
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.
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.
I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more.
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.
TV is no longer the best alternative to boredom. To kids not old enough for Snapchat, music is the best alternative to boredom. For Snapchat users, it's the best alternative to boredom.
I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.
