Mark Cuban Quotes

Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.

I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.

If I can afford a $1,000 apartment, I'm going to try to find a $600 apartment and save the $400 towards something I want to invest in.

I just save my money, man. I don't even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon' be broke later on. I be savin', I be chillin'. It feels good to know I got it, but it feel better to know I'ma keep it too.

You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

I always tried to manage my money smart.

A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.

Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.