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.
– Michael Bloomberg
Progress is not inevitable. It’s up to us to create it.
– Michael Bloomberg
Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.
– Michael Bloomberg
Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.
– Michael Bloomberg
You can’t define what’s middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
– Michael Bloomberg
It’s no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
– 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
If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.
– 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
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.
– Michael Bloomberg
You’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
– Michael Bloomberg
I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I’ve said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.
– Michael Bloomberg
You must first be willing to fail – and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
– Michael Bloomberg
I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
– 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
If you want to know how to solve society’s problems, you start out with better public education.
– 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
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
What has changed is that people have stopped working together.
– 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
Fighting climate change isn’t just an obligation we owe to future generations. It’s also an opportunity to improve public health – and drive economic growth – in the here and now.
– Michael Bloomberg
Nobody wants a job where they don’t have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you give people, the better people you can attract, and the harder they’re going to work, and the more loyal they are going to be.
– Michael Bloomberg
There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be sideways. I can just tell you I have been hired, I have been fired, I have been lauded, I have been vilified. I’ve said some of the most brilliant things that just by accident appeared on my tongue, and I’ve said some of the dumbest things that you could imagine. But each day – even the day that I knew I was going to be fired – I looked forward to because I’ve always believed that tomorrow was going to be the best day of my life.
– Michael Bloomberg
The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.
– Michael Bloomberg
After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.
– Michael Bloomberg
Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.
– Michael Bloomberg
I mean, you know, we don’t live in a perfect world.
– Michael Bloomberg
Progress really is possible.
– 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
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
You can’t sit there and worry about everything.
– Michael Bloomberg
Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he’s running his business? God help us.
– Michael Bloomberg