Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
Michael "Mike" Rubens Bloombergis an American business magnate, politician, and philanthropist. With a net worth of US$46.7 billion as of July 2016, Bloomberg is the 6th richest person in the United States and the 8th richest in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 February 1942
CountryUnited States of America
father writing years
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.
america people done
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.
business entrepreneur funding
Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.
graduation games numbers
In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.
firsts failing willing
You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
ideas entrepreneurship will-power
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
pain team responsibility
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.
progress inevitable
Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.
new-york cities spirit
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
mountain ifs
If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.
each-day tongue tomorrow
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.
thinking law people
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.
dream disappointment careers
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.
opportunity entrepreneur risk
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.