50 Inspirational Michael Bloomberg Quotes For Success In Life

Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American politician, businessman, and author. He is the CEO and majority owner of Bloomberg L.P., which he co-founded. Bloomberg was the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. He is currently a candidate in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 United States presidential election. Michael Bloomberg quotes will motivate you to achieve success.

Famous Michael Bloomberg Quotes

1. “I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump’s business plan is a disaster in the making.”
2. “No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.”
3. “We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.”
4. “It’s no fun to protest on an empty stomach.”
5. “I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I’m happy to be one – or proud to be one.”
6. “My father worked all the time.”
7. “The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it’s the city or state or federal level – it’s much more horse-trading than analysis.”
8. “And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.”
9. “I’ve been a Democrat, I’ve been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don’t believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.”

10. “You can’t sit there and worry about everything.”

11. “We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.”
12. “What has changed is that people have stopped working together.”
13. “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.”
14. “We will go forward… we will never go back.”
15. “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.”
16. “We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.”
17. “Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s got to pay for them so they’re a necessary evil.”
18. “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.”
19. “Progress really is possible.”
20. “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.”

21. “People use so much more health care when they live longer.”

22. “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.”
23. “I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That’s not true… That would let the terrorists win. That’s what they want us to do.”
24. “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.”
25. “We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.”
26. “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.”
27. “I don’t believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it’s so outdated.”
28. “China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.”
29. “Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don’t give ’em a green card.”

30. “The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.”

31. “Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb-thrower. Someone who can bring members of Congress together to get things done. And I know Hillary Clinton can do that because I saw it firsthand.”
32. “I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.”
33. “Many of America’s and New York’s sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.”
34. “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.”
35. “I am what I am and, you know, I’m a very lucky guy.”
36. “I’m trying to change the culture in New York City; that’s hard enough!”
37. “Government shouldn’t tell you whom to marry.”
38. “The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. ‘Impeccable credentials’ means you’ve never lived outside the United States.”
39. “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.” , Michael Bloomberg quotes on guns

40. “I have the best job I could possibly have.”

41. “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.”
42. “Ironically, 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.”
43. “Well, we have to provide the world’s best schools. We certainly don’t have them, but that’s our objective.”
44. “Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.”
45. “Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.”
46. “I mean, you know, we don’t live in a perfect world.”
47. “I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.”
48. “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.”
49. “You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn’t work. And what’s good theater and what’s good politics isn’t necessarily good economic policy.”
50. “Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control.”

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