Mark Cuban Quotes

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

Company culture is my number one priority. It's more important than the team, the product, the business model, or the investors. All of those things can be fixed and made better over time. But culture has to be established on Day 1.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner

Now the guy that got to the top, the CEO, would obviously be stupid to have a number two guy who was a lot smarter than he is. So by definition, since he's a survivor and he got to the top and he isn't that brilliant, his number two guy is going to always be a little worse than he is. So, as time goes on, it's anti-Darwinism, the survival of the un- fittest.

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I'd put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn. And the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.

Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.

I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.

Just media alone is not enough. You have to have organization.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.