#go

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#always #businesses #certainly #first #going

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#good #good things #got #necessary #necessary evil

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#be prepared #being #being there #blame #city

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

— Michael Bloomberg

#delegate #going #lot #nobody #power

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#career #child #college #dramatically #ensure

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#fix #government #haven #house #job

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#beautiful words #good #good words #persuasive #truthful

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#between #cannot #forward #gap #go

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#cannot #companies #fill #going #high

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#cannot #care #care costs #city #continue