Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P.. He was the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and was briefly a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. Bloomberg grew up in Medford, Massachusetts and graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School. He began his career at the securities brokerage Salomon Brothers before forming his own company in 1981. That company, Bloomberg L.P., is a financial information, software and media firm that is known for its Bloomberg Terminal. Bloomberg spent the next twenty years as its chairman and CEO. In 2019, Forbes ranked him as the ninth-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $55.5 billion. Since signing The Giving Pledge, Bloomberg has given away $8.2 billion. May these Michael Bloomberg Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “We will go forward, we will never go back.” Michael Bloomberg
2. “The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.” Michael Bloomberg
3. “I have the best job I could possibly have.” Michael Bloomberg
4. “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.” Michael Bloomberg
5. “Progress really is possible.” Michael Bloomberg
6. “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
7. “I’d be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.” Michael Bloomberg
8. “If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary’s. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.” Michael Bloomberg
9. “You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.” Michael Bloomberg
10. “Well, we have to provide the world’s best schools. We certainly don’t have them, but that’s our objective.” Michael Bloomberg
11. “You can’t depend on polls.” Michael Bloomberg
12. “It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.” Michael Bloomberg
13. “People use so much more health care when they live longer.” Michael Bloomberg
14. “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.” Michael Bloomberg
15. “I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.” Michael Bloomberg
16. “I am what I am and, you know, I’m a very lucky guy.” Michael Bloomberg
17. “You don’t make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you’re-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don’t know what’s going to happen.” Michael Bloomberg
18. “What has changed is that people have stopped working together.” Michael Bloomberg
19. “Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.” Michael Bloomberg
20. “You can’t sit there and worry about everything.” Michael Bloomberg
21. “The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.” Michael Bloomberg
22. “You can’t define what’s middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.” Michael Bloomberg
23. “There is no accountability today – no willingness to focus on big ideas.” Michael Bloomberg
24. “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
25. “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
26. “And I think the more money you put in people’s hands, the more they will spend. And if they don’t spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.” Michael Bloomberg
27. “The public is upset. If they haven’t lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven’t lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something’s wrong, it’s government’s job to fix it, it must be government that’s responsible for causing it.” Michael Bloomberg
28. “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
29. “You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country’s success.” Michael Bloomberg
30. “I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.” Michael Bloomberg
31. 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
32. “We would betray our values and play into our enemies’ hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.” Michael Bloomberg
33. “Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control.” Michael Bloomberg
34. “We’ve shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. 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
35. “I’ve got the greatest job in the world. There’s no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people’s lives. It’s a great challenge.” Michael Bloomberg
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