To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
Michael BloombergStubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.
Michael BloombergIf 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.
Michael BloombergI'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.
Michael Bloomberg[ Bernie Sanders' popularity] is exactly the same as Donald Trump's.It is a bunch of people who are disaffected with what the establishment has done, and they are striking out. Do they have any clear idea of what they want as an alternative? No. The candidates that they have surrounded themselves with either have no idea or are promising things that are so impractical they will never get done.
Michael Bloomberg