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
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Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
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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.
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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.
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I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.
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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.
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We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so easy to pick up a sound byte and say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I believe that," without really thinking.
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Look at all of the great strengths of America: entrepreneurialship, work ethic, natural resources, a democracy, a transparency, a willingness to be critical. Around the world, they look at us, and they say, "Why are you criticizing yourself? Why are you people arguing during the political process to elect a president or somebody else?" That's the great strength of this country.
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The mistake that was made in the '70s is we stopped policing the streets, we stopped cleaning the streets, we stopped cleaning the graffiti off buildings, we stopped supporting our cultural institutions and building parks and schools and all those kinds of things.
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We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.
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By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.
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Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.
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After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.
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Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.
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Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.