Dan Gilbert

On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone. ”

There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

I'm still focused on the flagship businesses: Quicken Loans and RockBridge, the title company, and some of the board stuff in the gaming. ”

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. ”

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person. ”