Dan Gilbert Quotes
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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.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
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On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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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.
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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.
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I'm still focused on the flagship businesses: Quicken Loans and RockBridge, the title company, and some of the board stuff in the gaming.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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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.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
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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%.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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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.
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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.
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People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.