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Mike Bloomberg Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.”
— Mike Bloomberg, 15 Essential Quotes From Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
Tagged: Taxes, Necessary Evil
“When the Wall Street Journal article came out saying I was profane, my dear old mother called me to ask me if it was true. ‘Ma,’ I said, ‘Fuck 'em!’”
— Mike Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg's 30-Year-Old Wit and Wisdom Leaks, Showing Debatable Wit and Distinctive Lack of Wisdom
Tagged: Wall Street Journal, profane, Fuck 'Em
“You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.”
— Mike Bloomberg, 15 Essential Quotes From Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
Tagged: Decision Making, Uncertainty
“You know, there’s a federal law that prohibits the serving of good food west of 12th Avenue — look it up.”
— Mike Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg's 30-Year-Old Wit and Wisdom Leaks, Showing Debatable Wit and Distinctive Lack of Wisdom
Tagged: West Side, Federal Law
“I make it a rule never to go to Queens — and since that eliminates both airports I don’t travel a great deal.”
— Mike Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg's 30-Year-Old Wit and Wisdom Leaks, Showing Debatable Wit and Distinctive Lack of Wisdom
Tagged: Queens, JFK Airport, Laguardia Airport
“If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of Bloomingdale’s.”
— Mike Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg's 30-Year-Old Wit and Wisdom Leaks, Showing Debatable Wit and Distinctive Lack of Wisdom
Tagged: Women, Brains, beauty, Bloomingdale
“Whenever my wife catches me eyeing some broad, she’s very careful to turn to me and say, ‘That’s the most expensive piece of ass in the world!’”
— Mike Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg's 30-Year-Old Wit and Wisdom Leaks, Showing Debatable Wit and Distinctive Lack of Wisdom
Tagged: Wife, Cheating, Divorce, Piece of Ass
“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.”
— Mike Bloomberg, 15 Essential Quotes From Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
Tagged: Pride
“If we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.”
— Mike Bloomberg, 15 Essential Quotes From Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
Tagged: Laws, selective enforcement
“One of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.”
— Mike Bloomberg, 15 Essential Quotes From Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
Tagged: Islam, Terrorism
“The Royal Family — what a bunch of misfits — a gay, an architect, that horsey faced lesbian, and a kid who gave up Koo Stark for some fat broad.”
— Mike Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg's 30-Year-Old Wit and Wisdom Leaks, Showing Debatable Wit and Distinctive Lack of Wisdom
Tagged: Royal Family, Koo Stark, Homophobia, Lesbian
“The three biggest lies are: the check’s in the mail, I’ll respect you in the morning, and I’m glad I’m Jewish.”
— Mike Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg's 30-Year-Old Wit and Wisdom Leaks, Showing Debatable Wit and Distinctive Lack of Wisdom
Tagged: big lie, Check's in the Mail, Jewish
“America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.”
— Mike Bloomberg, 15 Essential Quotes From Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
Tagged: America, American Dream
“I'm not going to run for president. No way, no how.”
— Mike Bloomberg, 15 Essential Quotes From Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
Tagged: Irony
“Capitalism works.”
— Mike Bloomberg, 15 Essential Quotes From Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
Tagged: caplitalism
“If Jesus was a Jew, why does he have a Puerto Rican first name?”
— Mike Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg's 30-Year-Old Wit and Wisdom Leaks, Showing Debatable Wit and Distinctive Lack of Wisdom
Tagged: jesus, Jew, Puerto Rican
“There are two things I’d love to do more — have more birthdays and pay more taxes. If you have more birthdays, it’s obviously because you haven’t died yet, and if you pay more taxes, it’s clearly because you’re making more money.”
— Mike Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg's 30-Year-Old Wit and Wisdom Leaks, Showing Debatable Wit and Distinctive Lack of Wisdom
Tagged: Birthdays, Taxes
“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.”
— Mike Bloomberg, 15 Essential Quotes From Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
Tagged: recession
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