Dan Gilbert

“One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.”

“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.”

“People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'”

“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.”

“Except for a handful of banks that just keep a handful of their loans in portfolio, on their balance sheet, every other loan that's originated in the United States - whether from a bank, mortgage company, mortgage broker - is sold into the secondary market.”

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

“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.”

“We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.”

“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.”

“Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.”

“I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.”

“First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one bad night'. Like a marriage that's good, and then one bad thing happens, and you never talk to each other again.”

“As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.”

“There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.”

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

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

“I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.”

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

“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.”

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