Mark Cuban

I think people are tired of politics as usual. We're tired of everything being scripted; we're tired of every comment being politically correct.

I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

Nice goes much further than mean.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I used to drive around looking at the big houses, wondering how they got there. I used to love biographies about successful business people, wondering how they got there. You start to realize that if they can do it, I can do it.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.

It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

I think what has allowed me to be successful is that I can absorb more information than most and drill down to the key business elements of that information and make faster decisions. And of course, I truly try to enjoy every minute of my life. I can never understand why anyone wouldn't.