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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
Bank Manager
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Former Mayor Of New York City
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Boston
Massachusetts
Michael Rubens Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg
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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.
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You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
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When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air - the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.
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I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.
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I think [Winston] Churchill said it was [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others. And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.
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You can buy almost anything anyplace in the world. You can get it delivered in 24 hours. You can pay for it on credit or just by swiping something. So, I don't know that the world is worse off, in that context, than before.
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Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.
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There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.
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Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.
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You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
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Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.
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We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North Africa. But, fundamentally, if you take Japan, you're complaining that the economy isn't booming, they'd like to have slightly higher inflation.
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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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And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.
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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.
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There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it it's some people coming multiple times.
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Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.
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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.
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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
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