Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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

Dan Gilbert
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.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of thousands of different regulations, customs, vendors - it's a monster. So the only way to do that is with technology. It really is rocket science.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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.

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

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

Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert

When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.