Michael Bloomberg Quotes

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

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

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

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.

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

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

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

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

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

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to go down.

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

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

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

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

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.

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

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

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

I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

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

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children.

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

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

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

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

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

If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

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

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

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

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

I know a con when I see one.

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