Words matter. These are the best Dan Gilbert Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
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.
Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in ‘win now’ mode.
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.
I’d probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
There’s an energy in an urban core that you just don’t get anywhere else.
The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff over here at your hometown Cavaliers have not betrayed you nor never will betray you.
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.
We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it’s LeBron or anybody that contributes.
Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you’re taking away a lot of the risk.
Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
I think it’s natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they’re going to go after a brand new coach.
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.
People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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.
It’s all about connectivity – not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That’s what makes a city go.
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.
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.
I don’t think we’d be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.
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.
Detroit in its heyday – let’s say, 1920s to the ’60s – was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.
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.
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.
LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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.
In today’s world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail – that’s the way you get to championship success, whether it’s sports or business or life.
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.
The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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.
It’s time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.
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.
There’s nobody you can point to in the world that doesn’t make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.
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.
I think I’ve interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
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?
If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don’t really know about.
Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied – between 2005 and 2014 – were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.
