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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

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.

Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself or success as a team. You have to share the pain and the responsibility and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.

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

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

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