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" There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else. "
Dan Gilbert
Energy
Core
You
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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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" 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. "
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" Head coaching options are limited. "
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Limited
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" I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains. "
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" People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit. "
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" If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world around you as much as possible? "
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" It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions. "
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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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Different
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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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" There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications. "
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Better
" 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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" LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship. "
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Go
Championship
He
" 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. "
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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. "
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Live
Financial
" Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody. "
Dan Gilbert
Myself
Made
Players
" When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino. "
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Own
Up
Two
" 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
Sometimes
Think
Sales
" The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones. "
Dan Gilbert
Impact
Who
Start
" 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. "
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Mission
Future
Thinking
" From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us. "
Dan Gilbert
Faith
Right
Away
" 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
Value
Me
Know
" 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. "
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Know
People
Think
" 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
You
Talent
Investment
" 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. "
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Knowledge
Good
Love