Mark Cuban Quotes

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

Success always demands a greater effort.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

Talent is long patience.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.