“Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“Progress is not inevitable. It’s up to us to create it.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.” ― 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
“After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“You can’t sit there and worry about everything.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“If we don’t want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don’t enforce them.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“You can’t depend on polls.” ― 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
“I am what I am and, you know, I’m a very lucky guy.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“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
“The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.” ― 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
“You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“There is no accountability today – no willingness to focus on big ideas.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“People use so much more health care when they live longer.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“We will go forward, we will never go back.” ― 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
“I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure,”
“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
“Progress really is possible.” ― 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
“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
“The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.” ― 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
“You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“You can’t define what’s middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.” ― Michael Bloomberg
If you really believe that you’re making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets – not to have a fair fight.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“We will go forward… we will never go back.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.” ― 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
“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
“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
“You can’t define what’s middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.” ― Michael Bloomberg
“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
“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
“Buy what’s deliverable, not what could be.” ― 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
