Top 42 Best Bloomberg Quotes
#1. We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.
Michael Bloomberg
#2. If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.
Michael Bloomberg
#3. I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don't get into those positions of power - in the case of Bloomberg, both economic and political power - by being anybody's fool.
Norman Finkelstein
#4. We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.
Michael Bloomberg
#5. 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
#6. I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.
Mark Skousen
#7. We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
Michael Bloomberg
#8. Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.
Michael Bloomberg
#9. Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
Randi Weingarten
#10. There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life.
Michael Bloomberg
#11. When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.
Ed Koch
#12. I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.
Michael Bloomberg
#13. Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.
Michael Bloomberg
#14. 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.
Michael Bloomberg
#15. I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
Joe Biden
#16. 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
#17. The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
Michael Bloomberg
#19. I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.
Mark Rutte
#20. Business judgment is best developed through professional experience. The next best alternative is to be reading business articles. We recommend Bloomberg Businessweek and Economic Times/Business Standard, if time permits.
Sankalp Kelshikar
#21. Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.
Michael Bloomberg
#22. We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.
Michael Bloomberg
#23. I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
Michael Bloomberg
#26. The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
Michael Bloomberg
#27. 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.
Michael Bloomberg
#28. Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.
Michael Bloomberg
#29. When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.
Michael Bloomberg
#30. Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.
Michael Bloomberg
#32. 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.
Michael Bloomberg
#33. I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
Michael Bloomberg
#34. You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.
Michael Bloomberg
#35. 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.
Michael Bloomberg
#36. Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state - and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws.
Michael Bloomberg
#37. At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.
Bill De Blasio
#38. My mother and my father both, you know, the term would be, 'suck it up and just get on with it'; 'don't let bad things that happen to you stop you'; 'you're in control of your life,'" recalls Bloomberg. That advice is one of his sharpest childhood memories.
Joyce Purnick
#40. 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
#41. I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.
Michael Bloomberg
#42. I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.
Michael Bloomberg
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