Mark Cuban Quotes

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

I feel that if I absolve myself and say it was the Astros' fault I was bad in Game 7, in the World Series, I can't develop as a person.

Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.

My life, my failures. I hope that gives people the lesson to rebuild their own lives.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

I've made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn't smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it's going to be different the next time, and it's not, as it turns out.