Mark Cuban Quotes

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

We risk all in being too greedy.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

The greatest enemy a man can have is his prosperity.

He who is content with a moderate victory is always most successful; for those who would more than conquer, commonly lose.

Mad ambition trumpeteth to all

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

Today is much more an age of greed

Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.