If you look at who starts new businesses, people that are innovative and risk takers. When you look at immigrants, you really have to be an innovator and a risk taker to leave everything you know in the old country and go to a new country. People that come here in America come here to work.

Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

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

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

You can't sit there and worry about everything.