Mark Cuban Quotes

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.

One of my best friendships dwindled in the pub business - we still talk, but it challenged that friendship too much - and that taught me to go into football and find people that I can have good relations with but without being overly friendly.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

Every great business is built on friendship.

I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduced himself to somebody and they said, 'Oh, do you know Ben Elliot? I'd really like to meet him.' I remember him ringing me up, really annoyed.

There is no friendship in trade.

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

I befriend most of my clients, and I like to go out with them. I like to socialize with them: They're interesting.

No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.

My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals'.

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

Separating your profession from friendship is very difficult.

I hang out with people I have worked with - most of my friends I've met because I've worked with them, to be honest.

We've all been there, right? When you meet someone personally and then you find yourself working with them professionally, it's awkward.

It's hard to have fun with your friends with your bosses around.

Business keeps luring me back to China.

Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.