Quote

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

Michael Bloomberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
Bank Manager
Businessperson
Former Mayor Of New York City
Politician
Trader
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Michael Rubens Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg
Mike Bloomberg
Seventh
Biggest
Army
World

More quotes by Michael Bloomberg

Image
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.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
You have to understand, we have better communications and better transportation, so people know what's available elsewhere and can get a message out, and you can move things. And you [can] say that the economy is more unpredictable.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
You can't sit there and worry about everything.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
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.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
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.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?
Michael Bloomberg
Image
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
Michael Bloomberg
Image
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.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
Leading from the front: It's what built America. But these days, the federal government isn't at the front - it's cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
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.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
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
Image
Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
Politicians generally respond to who is going to help them get elected and re-elected.
Michael Bloomberg
Image
It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
Michael Bloomberg