Michael Bloomberg Quotes

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

Michael Bloomberg

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• There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Lives

• I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Me
  • Grandmother
  • Birth

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Design

• I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

  Gail Devers
  • Long
  • Country
  • Career

• Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Reality
  • Celebrity
  • Disappointment

• You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Ego

• We had an agreement with Borussia that I could leave. It didn't happen. It is a disappointment. But I'm also happy to stay.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Happy
  • Disappointment

• I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.

  

  Dara Horn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hope

• I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

  

  John Burnside
  • Life
  • World
  • Disappointment

• I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Kids
  • Career

• Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

  

  Les Brown
  • Disappointment

• The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn't created enough jobs, and it hasn't produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world.

  

  George Packer
  • World
  • Age
  • Disappointment

• I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Truth
  • Encounters

• My children come first and the career comes in around that.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Children
  • Career
  • Firsts

• He's not a starter and hasn't started, ... I know he's disappointed in not making more of an impact, not playing more, but I think it's something we have to work our way through. I think it's one of those things scheme-wise for our defense, it's the best way I would answer that. We've got a lot of guys that are talented guys who can do a lot of things for us. ... Health-wise, I think he's back.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Work
  • Health
  • Wise

• I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

  

  John Travolta
  • Career
  • Careers
  • Trade

• Actually it was not really a very special feeling, but surely we’ve been kind of proud of being in the business for such a long time, but that is what we always wanted to do. And I think there is nothing better to live your dreams, even if they are bad some times. But I think that keeps you going. To say it with a song title from the Double X album…"But We Still Rock"!

  

  Claus Lessmann Bonfire
  • Live
  • Song
  • Proud

• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

  

  John Ruskin
  • World
  • Remember
  • Beautiful

• I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • City

• If you can see it, and believe it, it is a LOT easier to achieve it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • See
  • Achieve

• If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

  

  Michael Bloomberg
  • Careers
  • Disappointment
  • Encounters