Michael Bloomberg quotes on believe

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you. -Michael Bloomberg

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I’m happy to be one-or proud to be one. -Michael Bloomberg

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe. -Michael Bloomberg

What you’ve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don’t wuss out. -Michael Bloomberg

Every one of my positions cuts-out half the country. I’m pro-choice, I’m pro-gay rights, I’m pro-immigration, I’m against guns, I believe in Darwin. -Michael Bloomberg

Buy what’s deliverable, not what could be. -Michael Bloomberg

I know a con when I see one. -Michael Bloomberg

As financial markets continue to evolve, our clients need and expect the index business to evolve too. -Michael Bloomberg

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy. -Michael Bloomberg

In fact, you see Hillary [Clinton] moving very far to the left. You see all the Republicans moving very far to the right. -Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg quotes on time

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. -Michael Bloomberg

My father worked all the time. -Michael Bloomberg

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure. -Michael Bloomberg

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time. -Michael Bloomberg

I’m not going to talk about supporting somebody for a long time. I don’t know who the two party candidates are going to be. -Michael Bloomberg

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day. -Michael Bloomberg

Obviously the sport gets a bit of a wrap as an elitist sport, and it is very expensive, the majority of top riders didn’t come from money. -Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg quotes on world

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world. -Michael Bloomberg

I’m worried about the world because of nuclear proliferation. -Michael Bloomberg

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. -Michael Bloomberg

NYPD-the seventh largest army in the world.-NEW YORK CITY MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG” -Radley Balko

I mean, you know, we don’t live in a perfect world. -Michael Bloomberg

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world. -Michael Bloomberg

One’s a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one’s just the opposite. -Michael Bloomberg

We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring. -Michael Bloomberg

Many of America’s and New York’s sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for. -Michael Bloomberg

I’ve always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it. -Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg quotes on president

I don’t have a problem with a woman being president; I just want the best candidate. -Michael Bloomberg

I’d be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is. -Michael Bloomberg

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who’s divorced really have of becoming president? -Michael Bloomberg

Nobody’s going to elect me president of the United States. -Michael Bloomberg

We cannot afford four more years of president trump’s reckless and unethical actions. -Michael Bloomberg

I’m not going to run for president. No way, no how. -Michael Bloomberg

I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump’s business plan is a disaster in the making. -Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg quotes on people

People use so much more health care when they live longer. -Michael Bloomberg

If people are not smoking, they’ll probably be drinking more. -Michael Bloomberg

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what’s right for the economy. -Michael Bloomberg

If you can’t prove it’s not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true. -Michael Bloomberg

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did. -Michael Bloomberg

You’re going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that’s exactly what we should all do. -Michael Bloomberg

I don’t know why people carry guns. Guns kill people. -Michael Bloomberg

What we shouldn’t do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders. -Michael Bloomberg

In New York City, a lot of people think “the great outdoors” is the area between your front door and a taxi cab. -Michael Bloomberg

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine… We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit. -Michael Bloomberg

You’ve got to give people a fair chance of saying what they believe, and then you’ve got to decide, “Do you believe ’em? -Michael Bloomberg

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest. -Michael Bloomberg

What has changed is that people have stopped working together. -Michael Bloomberg

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress. -Michael Bloomberg

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it’s good, it’s still lousy. -Michael Bloomberg

You can’t define what’s middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor. -Michael Bloomberg

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them. -Michael Bloomberg

This is a giant step forward in the work of achieving the goals that nations agreed to. -Michael Bloomberg

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible. -Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg quotes on company

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you’re so big that you can’t. That’s worse. -Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg could be the CEO of a large company one day and get elected as New York’s mayor the next. -Nandan Nilekani

Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved. -Michael Bloomberg

The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company. -Michael Bloomberg

The distribution of wealth across society is an absolute scandal. -Michael Bloomberg

None of them would know how to run a big organization. -Michael Bloomberg

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control. -Michael Bloomberg

Today, you’re a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases. -Michael Bloomberg

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s got to pay for them so they’re a necessary evil. -Michael Bloomberg

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy. -Michael Bloomberg

The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations. -Michael Bloomberg

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made. -Michael Bloomberg

You must first be willing to fail-and you must have the courage to go for it anyway. -Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg quotes on trump

You can bet-a good chance of Hillary [Clinton], a good chance of [Donald] Trump-but not 100% in either case. -Michael Bloomberg

I think both of them [Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders] have [chances] because they are not the establishment, not for who they are. -Michael Bloomberg

My obit would have been about only one thing : he’s the guy that gave us donald trump. -Michael Bloomberg

I don’t think there’s any chance of the senator beating donald trump. -Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg quotes on city

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high. -Michael Bloomberg

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. -Michael Bloomberg

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. -Michael Bloomberg

I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city. -Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg quotes on york

For my own job, my short list included Hillary, Colin Powell, Panetta, and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. -Robert M

Michael Bloomberg quotes on america

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American. -Michael Bloomberg

America is the greatest country on Earth-and when people vote with their feet, they come here. -Michael Bloomberg

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions. -Michael Bloomberg

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path. -Michael Bloomberg

More from Michael bloomberg

Democrats wrongly blame the private sector for our problems. -Michael Bloomberg

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it. -Michael Bloomberg

Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down. -Michael Bloomberg

Stubborn isn’t a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate. -Michael Bloomberg

Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he’s very good on education. He’s a smart guy. -Michael Bloomberg

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets. -Michael Bloomberg

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom. -Michael Bloomberg

Nobody’s going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it. -Michael Bloomberg

Well, we have to provide the world’s best schools. We certainly don’t have them, but that’s our objective. -Michael Bloomberg

I’m listening to what candidates are saying and what the primary voters appear to be doing. -Michael Bloomberg

Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person. -Michael Bloomberg

I have the best job I could possibly have. -Michael Bloomberg

Hopefully our deliberations will be helpful to you as you formulate climate policy. -Michael Bloomberg

It’s no fun to protest on an empty stomach. -Michael Bloomberg

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way. -Michael Bloomberg

You can’t depend on polls. -Michael Bloomberg

Don’t think that I’m-I’d-I’m infallible. Will always make mistakes. -Michael Bloomberg

Central planning didn’t work for Stalin or Mao, and it won’t work for an entrepreneur either. -Michael Bloomberg Partisanship may be King in Washington-but the rest of us don’t have to pay tribute. -Michael Bloomberg

I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close. -Michael Bloomberg

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines. -Michael Bloomberg You’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. -Michael Bloomberg

I find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal and an outrage and an insult to the voters. -Michael Bloomberg

I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them. -Michael Bloomberg You bet I did and I enjoyed it. -Michael Bloomberg

You can’t sit there and worry about everything. -Michael Bloomberg

I am what I am and, you know, I’m a very lucky guy. -Michael Bloomberg I don’t know why you should be proud of something. It doesn’t make you any better or worse. You are what you are. -Michael Bloomberg

Progress really is possible. -Michael Bloomberg

Government is dysfunctional. -Michael Bloomberg I never liked anyone who didn’t have a temper. If you don’t have a temper, you don’t have any passion. -Michael Bloomberg

There is no accountability today… no willingness to focus on big ideas. -Michael Bloomberg

Progress is not inevitable. It’s up to us to create it. -Michael Bloomberg Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff. -Michael Bloomberg

The main claim to fame, I think, of Bernie Sanders-who I’ve never met; I’m sure he’s a pleasant guy-[is that] he’s certainly not stupid. -Michael Bloomberg

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles. -Michael Bloomberg I’d be derelict in my duty if I didn’t go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York’s cause. -Michael Bloomberg

If you don’t encounter setbacks in your career, if you don’t have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you’re not dreaming big enough. -Michael Bloomberg

Politicians generally respond to who is going to help them get elected and re-elected. -Michael Bloomberg Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work -Michael Bloomberg

Government shouldn’t tell you whom to marry. -Michael Bloomberg

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason. -Michael Bloomberg