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You must first be willing to fail - and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
— Michael Bloomberg
Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States.
— Michael Bloomberg
I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.
— Michael Bloomberg
You know, if it's a three-way race, the public has more choice than if it's a two-way race, and has more choice in a two-way race than a one-way race.
— Michael Bloomberg
You bet I did and I enjoyed it.
— 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
In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.
— 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
I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.
— Michael Bloomberg
We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.
— Michael Bloomberg
Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!
— Michael Bloomberg
I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
— 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
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
I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It's not even close.
— Michael Bloomberg
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
— Michael Bloomberg
One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.
— Michael Bloomberg
We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
— Michael Bloomberg
What has changed is that people have stopped working together.
— Michael Bloomberg
A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.
— 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
Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.
— Michael Bloomberg
Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.
— Michael Bloomberg
If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.
— Michael Bloomberg
I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.
— 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
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
Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.
— 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
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
Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.
— Michael Bloomberg
I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!
— Michael Bloomberg
We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.
— Michael Bloomberg
We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.
— Michael Bloomberg
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.
— Michael Bloomberg
I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.
— Michael Bloomberg
Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.
— Michael Bloomberg
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
— 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
To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
— Michael Bloomberg
I'm not going to run for president. No way, no how.
— Michael Bloomberg
My father worked all the time.
— Michael Bloomberg
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.
— Michael Bloomberg
Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.
— 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
Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.
— Michael Bloomberg
Progress really is possible.
— Michael Bloomberg
Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.
— Michael Bloomberg
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
— 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
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
Government is dysfunctional.
— 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
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
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 the greatest country on Earth - and when people vote with their feet, they come here.
— 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
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
— Michael Bloomberg
You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
— Michael Bloomberg
Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.
— Michael Bloomberg
You can't sit there and worry about everything.
— Michael Bloomberg
It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
— Michael Bloomberg
You can't depend on polls.
— Michael Bloomberg
There is no accountability today ... no willingness to focus on big ideas.
— Michael Bloomberg
We will go forward ... we will never go back.
— Michael Bloomberg
You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
— Michael Bloomberg
I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.
— 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 understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making.
— Michael Bloomberg
People use so much more health care when they live longer.
— Michael Bloomberg
Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.
— 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
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
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
Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.
— 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
There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
— Michael Bloomberg
If people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.
— Michael Bloomberg
America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.
— Michael Bloomberg
You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
— Michael Bloomberg
In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.
— Michael Bloomberg
Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure,
— Michael Bloomberg
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.
— Michael Bloomberg
I have the best job I could possibly have.
— Michael Bloomberg
Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.
— 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 have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.
— Michael Bloomberg
If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.
— Michael Bloomberg
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
— 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
I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
— Michael Bloomberg
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
Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.
— 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
The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.
— Michael Bloomberg
What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?
— Michael Bloomberg
If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.
— 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