Top 44 Dan Gilbert Quotes

When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the ‘Sports Illustrated‘ letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.

People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

We like scalable companies that we think we can grow – because of our expertise, operational is consumer-facing. For the most part, consumer-facing, technology-driven process, driven sometimes if they’re call center or into the sales type of stuff associated with it.

The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren’t the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.

StockX’s live marketplace will harness the Internet‘s natural ability to facilitate a better way to transact certain segments of ecommerce. We are going to bring the kind of trading platform and visibility to tangible products that financial and commodities markets have used for decades.

People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the ’60s.

Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.

The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they’re going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from the East Coast – a little bit of variance on the coast – I’m from Ohio, and I understand that.

Detroit in its heyday – let’s say, 1920s to the ’60s – was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in ‘win now’ mode.

You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they’re two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we’ve all seen.

I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.

Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they’re the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It’s really not good business. It’s nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L. Brooks Patterson. An arena in the middle of a field is not an ideal thing.

The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.

People would tell us, ‘I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.’

On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you’re going to be alone.

People still don’t know how good Kevin Love is because he played in Minnesota… you didn’t see him much on TV. His passing, his knowledge of the game – the stuff that doesn’t show up in the stats – he has so much going for him.

As a franchise, we don’t have any different expectations than anyone else.

I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn’t going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.

Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.

A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized – the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

I think I’ve interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.

A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology – bad processes and systems.

Detroit’s a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you’ve got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you’re going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.

In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

Regional gaming across the United States has had serious challenges, not just in Cleveland or Cincinnati, but also across the United States.

I think millennials are a generation that’s a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.

Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that’s simply not how it works.

I’m still focused on the flagship businesses: Quicken Loans and RockBridge, the title company, and some of the board stuff in the gaming.

Above all, the fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as the entire franchise, deserve and need our players and coaches to dig deep within themselves.

The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.

People have things that happen between them. I certainly don’t keep grudges.

It’s time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.

I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, ‘How do I make things that are going good go better?

I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There’s a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn’t or wouldn’t endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.

The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.

We are driven to win a title. We want to see that day when everyone celebrates because we finally brought a title home to Northeast Ohio. It’s what we want, what LeBron wants, what all of us want.

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