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Head coaching options are limited.
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.
It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.
People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.
I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.
LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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.
Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.
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.
Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
I'm still focused on the flagship businesses: Quicken Loans and RockBridge, the title company, and some of the board stuff in the gaming.
Regional gaming across the United States has had serious challenges, not just in Cleveland or Cincinnati, but also across the United States.
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.
People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.
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.
Above all, the fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as the entire franchise, deserve and need our players and coaches to dig deep within themselves.
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.
A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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.
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.
A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
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%.
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.
Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.
The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff over here at your hometown Cavaliers have not betrayed you nor never will betray you.
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.
We are driven to win a title. We want to see that day when everyone celebrates because we finally brought a title home to Northeast Ohio. It's what we want, what LeBron wants, what all of us want.