Mark Cuban Quotes

Even entrepreneurs with the best ideas sometimes need a little wind beneath their wings.

I had the good fortune to be raised in the 1940s and the 1950s. As I entered business in the late 1950s and 1960s, America was just coming into its own as a great industrial power. It allowed young entrepreneurs to start their engines, to start their businesses, to borrow a little money and to leverage what they had.

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.

Creating a culture of entrepreneurship is particularly critical for Tunisia's success.

I had a blast. 'Shark Tank' embodies the American Dream. If you watch the show at home, you find yourself constantly hollering at the Sharks. Being able to sit next to them and call them out in real time was quite a privilege.

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.

This one is for the boys in the polos Entrepreneur niggas & the moguls

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.

Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.