Quotes by Dan Gilbert - Page 2

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 /
Dallas
East
Nba
San Antonio
Watched
Gel
San
Teams
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Bad Thing
First Thing
Lebron
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Heartfelt
Sports Illustrated
Lebron
Illustrated
Letter
Rumors
Thrilled
Wondered
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Minnesota
Passing
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Cleveland
Periods
Contender
Lebron
Franchise
Long Periods
Perennial
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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 /
Customs
Models
Rocket Science
Vendors
Counties
Monster
Myriad
Regulations
Rocket
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
East Coast
Hardworking
Midwest
Ohio
Variance
Work People Know
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Mess
Frankly
Loans
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Both Sides
Brown
Ferry
Good Job
Mike
Sides
Certain Level
Contract
Danny
Franchise
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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 /
Future
Money
Married
Passionate
Thinking
Voodoo
Because
Does
Controls
Fired
Follows
Lead
Mission
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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 /
Balance
Handful
Loan
Mortgage
Bank
Banks
Portfolio
Broker
Except
Market
Originated
Secondary
Sheet
Sold
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Championship
Judged
Social Media
Life Success Business
Media People
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Driven
Expertise
Process
Stuff
Type
Associated
Call
Center
Companies
Operational
Sales
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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 /
Arena
Brooks
Core
County
Downtown
Hills
Middle
Oakland
Sacramento
Urban
Field
Ideal
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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 /
Detroit
Downtown
Efficient
Fitting
Headquarters
Invention
Stock Exchange
Thousand
Exchange
Spot
Ironically
Stock
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Ambitious
Detroit
Entry
Investment
Labor
Motivated
Structure
Buildings
Fee
First Of All
Lower
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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 /
Decades
Facilitate
Harness
Marketplace
Natural Ability
Tangible
Trading
Visibility
Better Way
Commodities
Platform
Segments
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Our entire franchise has done everything in its power to put all of our players and its coaching staff in the best possible position to execute when it counts. And to deliver to the highly supportive fans of Cleveland a proud, intense, impassioned, all-out drive to achieve a championship.
Dan Gilbert /
Championship
Cleveland
Coaching
Coaching Staff
Impassioned
Intense
Staff
Supportive
All-Out
Counts
Deliver
Execute
Franchise
Highly
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Cleveland
Crosses
Certain Level
Best Hope Look
Franchise
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
Dan Gilbert /
Buying
Capability
Company
Impact
Investing
Passive
Risk
Always Your Me
Ask
Affect
Enhance
Me Style Always
Market
Outcome
Stock
Stock Market
Taking
Value
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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.
Dan Gilbert /
Consistent
Nba
Suggestions
Good People Ideas
Emails
Endorse
Franchise
Good Ones
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