Dan Gilbert

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

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.

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.

I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.

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