Michael Bloomberg Quotes

Like many dads I know, I've long been motivated in all aspects of my life by my love for my children - and my desire to make the world better a better place for them, my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

You see your children growing. You look at your grandchildren, and you say to yourself, 'What if I weren't here? Have I done all I can to prepare them for their role in life?' You realize that you never quite do everything, but you want to do better than what you have done.

I get excited when people talk about Ananya and Ahaan. Whatever I couldn't do in my life, my children will.

I'm inspired by my family's legacy of public service. It's something that I'm very proud of.

If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children.

My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity. Marc and I want to make sure we're doing that. This period of our lives is not just a tribute to her, it's inspired by her. And it's for when we have our own children — I want to help make sure we've got a world I want them to live in.

We have to build the country that we want to see our future children and grandchildren live in.

I think it's crucially important to be present in the lives of your children. They are my most important cause that I fight for. But I also feel an added responsibility that I want to leave them a better world than this one that we have now.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.

I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.

When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you'll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

I'm the father of four daughters.

We are at risk of turning over to the next generation a worse life than we have had.

Every vote that I make has to do with making things better for your kids and my kids.

I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in.

The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.

We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.