It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.


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There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don'...
DAN GILROY
The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ...
DAN GILROY
The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it...
DAN GILROY
Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make fil...
DAN GILROY
I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or ...
DAN GILROY
I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with g...
DAN GILROY
A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who un...
DAN GILROY
In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a ...
DAN GILROY
The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain...
DAN GILROY
I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
DAN GILBERT
The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful...
DAN GILBERT
We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is cons...
DAN GILBERT
One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and p...
DAN GILBERT
The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff o...
DAN GILBERT
I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
DAN GILBERT
Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did...
DAN GILBERT
A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. Bu...
DAN GILBERT
I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban a...
DAN GILBERT
A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not jus...
DAN GILBERT
StockX's live marketplace will harness the Internet's natural ability to facilitate a better...
DAN GILBERT
From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committ...
DAN GILBERT
First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one ba...
DAN GILBERT
If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us,...
DAN GILBERT
Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimi...
DAN GILBERT
When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can ...
DAN GILBERT
When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
DAN GILBERT
To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of t...
DAN GILBERT
It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That&...
DAN GILBERT
If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world aroun...
DAN GILBERT
There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, ...
DAN GILBERT
There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up...
DAN GILBERT
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
DAN GILBERT
If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should appr...
DAN GERTLER
Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing w...
DAN GERTLER
At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
DAN GERTLER
I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.
DAN GERTLER
That is what we know how to do better than anyone else: We know how to maximize value for our projec...
DAN GERTLER
Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
DAN GERTLER