Cuban read Rand’s The Fountainhead “three complete times and untold number of little snippets and segments,” he said in an interview on C-SPAN (March 26, 2006). He first read the book in high school, and it taught him that “it doesn’t matter what everybody else thinks — it’s how you see yourself and what your own dreams are.” On Slate.com (November 15, 2005), Cuban said the book “was incredibly motivating to me. It encouraged me to think as an individual, take risks to reach my goals and responsibility for my successes and failures. I loved it.” Cuban named his yacht “Fountainhead”.