Mark Cuban

By the end of the year, Cost Plus Drugs will carry 2,000 generic medications

Right now we've got about 110 different generics at costplusdrugs.com. By the end of the year we'll have 2,000. So if you have any type of prescription, check it out, you know, if we have your drug, we will save [you money].

NBA players are happier today than they were 20 years ago because of mental health awareness

I think they're happier because... they're also more mental health aware. You know, they're not just like, oh, don't be a pussy. Right? It's like, get yourself some help. Right? I'm with you, bro. Let me show you some love.

The Dallas Mavericks are officially contenders to win a championship this year

Are we officially contenders? For sure. I mean, you know, it takes time to adjust to a new coach. We're 18 and six over the last 24 games. Our defense is top three and our offense is top 10. If you're a top 10 offense and a top five defense, you have a chance to compete for a title.

Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porziņģis are cornerstones; the Mavs need one more piece for a title

We've got two cornerstones in KP and Luka... one one more piece, I think really gets us to competing for title just a question of whether or not we can get that player... defending really good Wing players, you know, the Bron's, the Kawhi's, the Paul George's... we need better Defenders that can also score.

Gen Z's lack of cable is the primary reason for declining sports TV ratings

Our biggest fan base comes from gen Z and younger Millennials... consume more basketball and NBA than any sport online but they don't have cable. They don't have satellite and so they couldn't even get ESPN and TNT. So that's a real problem for us... it's not about making excuses, the reality is this is just a different year.

The US should implement a $1,000 stimulus check every two weeks for a couple of months

The idea of thousand dollar stimulus every two weeks... when people have money to spend we can boost up the economy... That's not a long-term solution... but if you do it every two weeks for a couple months and you also make it you have to spend it or lose it... that puts money into the economy that has a multiplier effect.

Joe Biden's plan to tax capital gains at regular income tax rates is a huge mistake

The way that even Biden—who I'm going to vote for—is saying that he's going to make the capital gains rate the same as regular income tax rates if you make over a million dollars, that's a huge mistake because that's going to negatively impact investment and creating jobs.

Modern Monetary Theory and sustained stimulus should be given a chance to work

There's this whole thing called modern monetary theory that says that there's a certain threshold of debt that you can keep on adding... We should just give this modern monetary theory approach with the stimulus payments a chance to work and see what happens because you never know where we'll end up.

Robots won't turn on humanity for at least another hundred years

[Am I worried that the robots will turn on us?] No, not yet. Maybe in a hundred years I guess that'll be a possibility but not now. The two missing pieces are manual dexterity—they can't really use their fingers yet on robots—and batteries.

The NBA should permanently move its season start to Christmas Day

I've been saying that for 15 years. Rather than taking on football, with our first early games, let's let them get close to playoffs and just go wholeheartedly starting Christmas Day.

The US needs a federal jobs program for COVID-19 tracking and testing

We need a federal jobs program. We need to hire people because look, we've got 33 million unemployed, another 20 underemployed. The government needs to hire people to do tracking and tracing and testing... the government should be the ones hiring them now.

States will 100% legalize sports gambling post-pandemic for the tax revenue

One hundred percent. Absolutely. They need the tax revenue. And absolutely, the minute you can get one inside the arena... all in.

Business is the ultimate competition and much harder than professional sports

In basketball, you compete for 48 minutes. You practice a couple hours. You guys know in business, it's 24 by 7 by 365, and everybody's trying to kick your ass. Everybody's trying to come after you, and you got to battle all the time. Sports are easy, easy. Business is the ultimate competition.

NBA ratings are only down on TV because younger fans are cord-cutters

NBA ratings have taken a little bit of a dip totally different right... cord cutters, right? If your shows on television a nobody watch it... our numbers are down primarily on TNT which doesn't have as much carriage and as much linked to younger audiences... our streaming numbers the really really good.

NFL games only have 12 minutes of actual action while the NBA has 48

The thing about football on TV... you only have to watch 12 minutes. There's only 12 minutes of action. In an NBA game, it's a little bit harder. Yeah, because you're watching 48 minutes of action, there's always something going on.

Major League Baseball is 'fucked' because they restrict highlights on social media

Major League Baseball because they are very strict about what you can post on social media. They're fucked like you can't you can't take a highlight... their logic is they want to monetize all those views through their own proprietary feeds. The NBA is the exact opposite.

Rugby will succeed in the US if the MLR can effectively sell and sponsor the sport

It's tougher to get going but it's as it turns out, Major League Rugby... George Killebrew just became the commissioner and so they're in good hands now. You got to get sponsors and you got to learn how to sell it... if it's going to happen, he's the guy to do it.

AI will allow podcasts to be seamlessly translated into native languages like Chinese while preserving the original voice

I got this company Synthesia right where we can just over we could take train a voice to put on anybody... it looks like I'm saying it right because it matches all up... if we get you guys sitting there and training it for like 20 minutes and you want to have it done in Native Chinese or native Spanish or whatever. So it looks like you guys are doing the podcast.