Quotes from 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.

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

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.

I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

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%.

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.

Head coaching options are limited.

People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

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.

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.

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

Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we don't get what we wanted. In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind.

Forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery — but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet.

memory is a faithless friend

Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed.

I think that someone should do a version of Die Hard in heroic couplets.