Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman, politician, author, and philanthropist. Bloomberg is one of the founders, CEO, and owner of Bloomberg L.P., a global financial services, software and mass media company that bears his name, and is notable for its Bloomberg Terminal, a computer software system providing financial data widely used in the global financial services industry. Bloomberg served as the 108th Mayor of New York City, holding office for three consecutive terms, beginning his first in 2001.
Some of the best quotes from Michael Bloomberg are listed below.
- “After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.” – 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
- “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
- “Buy what’s deliverable, not what could be.” – Michael Bloomberg
- “Capitalism works.” – 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
- “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
- “Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.” – 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
- “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 tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just – I always respected people that tell the truth. And I’ve always wanted people to tell me the truth.” – Michael Bloomberg
- “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
- “I’ve always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.” – 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 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
- “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 look at who starts new businesses, people that are innovative and risk takers. When you look at immigrants, you really have to be an innovator and a risk taker to leave everything you know in the old country and go to a new country. People that come here in America come here to work.” – 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
- “If you want to know how to solve society’s problems, you start out with better public education.” – Michael Bloomberg
- “In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.” – Michael Bloomberg
- “Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.” – Michael Bloomberg
- “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.” – 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
- “Progress is not inevitable. It’s up to us to create it.” – Michael Bloomberg
- “The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.” – 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
- “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
- “We need people from all around the world. We need entrepreneurs, we need students that we’re educating in our schools that we then throw out and we should make sure they can stay here. If we don’t have the new flux of immigrants, nobody’s going to create the jobs for the Americans who are currently out of work.” – 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
- “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.” – Michael Bloomberg
- “You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.” – Michael Bloomberg
