Michael Bloomberg Quotes

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

I think it's important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don't win, and that sucks, and you work on improving.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

I didn't come from the worst of situations, and I didn't come into the best of situations. But I've appreciated the best situations. And I've made the best of the worst situations. I'm lucky to be where I am.

Failure usually works for me in the end.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

I think the rejection - if it's taken in the right spirit, it can make you a better person. And I think that is what I've always striven for. If one thing didn't work out, a project or anything, it doesn't mean that I lose my own confidence. In fact, I give myself a lot more confidence and opportunities.

While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.

You just go out there and do the best you can. If it hits, it hits. And if it doesn't, you go on to the next thing.

For the longest time, I was horrified to hear the word 'failure,' but I've come to realize that we all fail. It's just a part of life. We all fall. It's how you rebound that shows the type of person you are.

Self-belief is the key to success and that has helped me. So I will put in all my efforts in the manner I know. If it works, it is great and if it doesn't it's still great as I know I have put in all my effort.

One must be prepared for some surprises in life - some things will work out your way, some won't. You just have to keep working and do things to the best of your ability.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

I've been through so much. I just live each day, and whatever happens, happens. I've lived a very good life. My life has definitely changed, but the attitude is still the same.

Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it