Mark Cuban Quotes

Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

You are not the car you drive.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.

There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Just never really got into cars and flossin' or never really cared, like I was always the type of person that felt like as long as I make enough money to support my family with this music that's all I really care about. You know what I mean so I don't really buy, I'm just not into like that many material possessions and stuff like that, because at the end of the day, it's just not that important.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what's inside of you.

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Express who you are in a world where everyone is the same.

I can only give my life in a way that makes me comfortable.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.

Who knows, maybe I'm just a stubborn jerk? Maybe the other people who do stuff they don't want to do, maybe they're doing the right thing. Who am I to say? I'm just doing my thing and being myself, and I've been given the incredible, fortunate opportunity to play roles that I frickin' care about and enjoy playing. And it might not last forever. That's okay. That's what it is.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.