MARK CUBAN

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I think political people are afraid of me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.