Top 100 Michael Bloomberg Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Last I looked – and I’m not a candidate – but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It’s most states are winners take all.”

— Michael Bloomberg

53. “Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they’re screaming about. In business, it’s exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren’t performing.”

— Michael Bloomberg

54. “In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn’t work, you say okay, we’ve learned that that’s not a path to go down.”

— Michael Bloomberg

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

— Michael Bloomberg

56. “I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.”

— Michael Bloomberg

57. “I am what I am and, you know, I’m a very lucky guy.”

— Michael Bloomberg

58. “I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.”

— Michael Bloomberg

59. “My personal view is, why don’t you get out there and try to do something about the things that you don’t like, create the jobs that we are lacking, rather than just yell and scream. But if you want to yell and scream, we’ll make sure you can do it.”

— Michael Bloomberg

60. “I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.”

— Michael Bloomberg

61. “I’d be derelict in my duty if I didn’t go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York’s cause.”

— Michael Bloomberg

62. “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.”

— Michael Bloomberg

63. “What we shouldn’t do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.”

— Michael Bloomberg

64. “Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine. We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.”

— Michael Bloomberg

65. “Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.”

— Michael Bloomberg

66. “We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.”

— Michael Bloomberg

67. “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.”

— Michael Bloomberg

68. “Nobody’s going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.”

— Michael Bloomberg

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

— Michael Bloomberg

70. “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

71. “New York has been, and will continue to be, a magnet for people from all over the world. This is where the arts, business, research and technology converge to create the world’s foremost urban economy.”

— Michael Bloomberg

72. “The public is upset. If they haven’t lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven’t lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something’s wrong, it’s government’s job to fix it, it must be government that’s responsible for causing it.”

— Michael Bloomberg

73. “In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn’t. And right now it doesn’t.”

— Michael Bloomberg

74. “Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!”

— Michael Bloomberg

75. “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

76. “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

77. “Nobody’s going to elect me president of the United States.”

— Michael Bloomberg

78. “The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other people from having opportunities. It may be good for a family, but for society it’s probably not good. And I’ve always been in favor of having an estate tax.”

— Michael Bloomberg

79. “I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money.”

— Michael Bloomberg

80. “I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.”

— Michael Bloomberg

81. “I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.”

— Michael Bloomberg

82. “The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.”

— Michael Bloomberg

83. “The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don’t agree with them.”

— Michael Bloomberg

84. “Mayors are very different, because mayors can’t be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just go with your gut and say what you believe, and you’ll be fine. If you’re not fine, at least you’ll like what you see in the mirror.”

— Michael Bloomberg

85. “In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we’ve done nothing – even as technology has moved at light speed.”

— Michael Bloomberg

86. “Well, we have to provide the world’s best schools. We certainly don’t have them, but that’s our objective.”

— Michael Bloomberg

87. “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.”

— Michael Bloomberg

88. “What has changed is that people have stopped working together.”

— Michael Bloomberg

89. “If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It’s just spread across 50 states.”

— Michael Bloomberg

90. “Partisanship may be King in Washington – but the rest of us don’t have to pay tribute.”

— Michael Bloomberg

91. “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

92. “We have an energy policy – we’re transferring our wealth to overseas to a bunch of countries that don’t have the same values as us. In some cases, they’re using our money to finance terrorism against us.”

— Michael Bloomberg

93. “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

94. “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.”

— Michael Bloomberg

95. “Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I’ve been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father’s name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally.”

— Michael Bloomberg

96. “I’d be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.”

— Michael Bloomberg

97. “Government should not tell you what to do unless there’s a compelling public purpose.”

— Michael Bloomberg

98. “What the Democrats have to understand is that while we do need to reform our regulation and we do need more restrictions, it is true that it is capitalism and free enterprise and companies that create jobs and wealth for every American.”

— Michael Bloomberg

99. “We’re paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.”

— Michael Bloomberg

100. “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.”

— Michael Bloomberg