Dan Gilbert

If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world around you as much as possible?

I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.

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.

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.

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.

Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.

In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

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

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.

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.

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

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%.