「紐約時報」CNBC今天報導，前紐約市長彭博（Michael Bloomberg）正在積極籌備準備參加民主黨總統競選。
由於前副總統拜登人氣開始下滑，彭博將搖身一變，以民主黨身份競選2020美國總統候選人。
據內部人士透露，麥可·布隆伯格不喜歡川普、華倫和桑達斯。他覺得，他自己能在上任後，打破兩黨之間多年的爭鬥，融合美國各派，勵精圖治，將美國重新推上超級大國的地位，讓美國人將再次為美國的成就而感到驕傲。
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making plans to enter the Democratic presidential primary campaign this week, a development that could reshape the field just three months before voting begins.
Bloomberg, who as one of the world’s richest men would bring significant financial resources to his own campaign, plans to file paperwork this week and has dispatched staff to Alabama to ensure he can get onto the ballot in a state that has a Friday filing deadline.
The move marks a major reversal for Bloomberg, who announced in March that he would not run for president, and is a reflection of some worry among Democrats about the candidates polling at the top of the current field. Bloomberg’s entry would pose particular problems for Joe Biden, who has attempted to build a coalition of moderate Democrats but has struggled to harness the energy showcased by more liberal candidates such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
「We now need to finish the job and ensure that Trump is defeated,」 said Howard Wolfson, a top adviser to Bloomberg. 「But Mike is increasingly concerned that the current field of candidates is not well positioned to do that.」
布隆伯格的成功秘訣
"Use the words 'we' and 'us' when referring to your business. Never use 'I' and 'me'. It sounds egotistical." 「談到自己的工作時要說『我們』，千萬不要說『我』。這會顯得很自大。」 （麥可·布隆伯格）
麥可·布隆伯格的成功之道
成功人士喜歡抓緊時間，前紐約市市長、彭博公司的創始人麥可·彭博（Michael Bloomberg）常說：我的經驗是，你得給自己製造運氣。越賣力工作，運氣就會越好。我一直努力做到早上第一個來上班、晚上最後一個離開，請假請得最少，離開辦公桌去洗手間或者吃午飯的時間也花得最少。常言道，一日之計在於晨。即使取得相當成就，一些名人也會擠出清晨時間了解資訊。
布隆伯格在美國最大的貢獻，是體現了打破黨派政治之後政府的活力。遺憾的是在全國範圍內這樣的政治家很難出現（沒有人那麼有錢不買帳）。縱觀他的政治生涯，有幾個特點非常突出讓人們很懷念。很多卓越的領導人物的性格和愛好是不變的（畢竟如果領導的方向變來變去會讓人遲疑），他的個性其實從商界到政界都是一致的。
理性主義布隆伯格的座右銘是：In God we trust. Everyone else, bring data（我們信靠上帝，除了上帝，其他任何人都必須用數據說話）。這體現了他作為商業領袖的理性主義。更重要的原因是他的彭博商業系統就是靠及時快速可靠的信息和數據發家，所以他深深得了解數據的重要性和可靠性。數據是不會說謊的，但是數據也僅僅是一件工具而已；有些人可以舉出「數據會說謊」的反例，但是如果數據分析都搞不定他也不會再華爾街混得風生水起了。
Bloomberg has chosen to apply a statistical, results-based approach to city management, appointing city commissioners based on their expertise and granting them wide autonomy in their decision-making. Breaking with 190 years of tradition, he implemented what New York Times political reporter Adam Nagourney called a "bullpen" open office plan, similar to a Wall Street trading floor, in which dozens of aides and managerial staff are seated together in a large chamber. The design is intended to promote accountability and accessibility.
他在紐約市中心的辦公室被他仿照投行改成了一個交易廳型的大型房間，然後把很多技術人員和管理人員像交易員一樣放在裡面實時監控城市的消防、治安、衛生等指數。同時他的城市管理員（city commissioners）很多也是典型的技術官僚,或者是在崗位上幹的很久的老官僚，比如警察局長雷門凱利。Raymond Walter "Ray" Kelly (born September 4, 1941) is the longest serving Commissioner of theNew York City Police Department (NYPD) in its history and the first person to hold the post for two non-consecutive tenures.
中立布隆伯格的中立從來就不是隨風倒的，而是真正的取兩派之精華而去其糟粕。比如在社會議題上他很自由主義，支持墮胎權、同性戀婚姻、槍枝管控以及移民轉正；在其他議題上他可以支持保守主義，支持市場經濟，商業自由以及保守的財政政策（畢竟華爾街出身），反對美國在伊拉克的撤軍時間表。而這些都是大多數選民樂於見到的。雖然美國有很多中間派的民主黨人和共和黨人（比如柯林頓和蘇珊柯林斯），但是他們本質上還是無法擺脫黨派的束縛。比如民主黨人非常難對工會下手,因為工會是大票倉和政治獻金來源；而共和黨人則基本對美國槍枝協會（NRA）無力下手，也不敢加稅，因為他們對於保守翼的選票實在是太重要了。政黨機器操縱大量的資金，讓政客對於議題的自由度變得很小。而且黨派政治導致的惡性循環使政治極端化。
因為政治極端組織往往有大量的資金和人脈，政客們抱著有總比沒有好的念頭總會願意和他們合作。NRA，NOM和ATR是三大魁首，分別代表持槍權、反同性戀權利和反稅收，90%的國會共和黨議員都籤了這幾個組織的pledge以獲得選票支持。更可怕的是2012保持中立不肯籤的Ron Paul就被這幾個組織花錢買電視廣告狠狠得黑了。實在是順我者昌，逆我者亡。Bloomberg就無所謂啊，一邊打壓工會一邊禁槍（作背景調查），反正他是獨立黨派，手裡又有錢。他3次競選紐約市長都不怎麼花別人的錢的---都從自己口袋裡掏，每年也只拿1刀的工資。真是無欲則剛。
麥可·布隆伯格執行力超強。我們來看一下政績（全部數據是2001年他當選和2013年的比較）（數據來自聯邦和紐約統計局）紐約監獄人數減少32%，而全國監獄人數增加了5%犯罪率減少30%，謀殺案件減少50%（全國謀殺案減少為15%）市政廳財政從600萬美元赤字達到收支平衡紐約旅遊人數從3400萬每年增加到5400萬人每年高中畢業率增加41%人均壽命增加2.2年青年懷孕率下降27%從08年以來經濟危機導致的失業恢復速度為全國均值的327%還有一些不能立竿見影，但是功在千秋的政策包括大幅度削減碳排放量（全美幅度最大），增加公園面積（78%紐約居民10分鐘內可達），公共場所禁菸等等。
很多時候選民要政治家 fix the economy, 經濟要是政府可以想弄好就弄好，那還要經濟規律做什麼？一邊要市場經濟的低價一邊要政府保護這個行業那個工資真是想得美好呢，一邊要高福利一邊又不肯加稅想的也是太美好了呢。反對黨也是跟怨婦一樣。GDP增長就噴失業，失業率下降就噴物價，物價下降就噴收入不平等。什麼數據都能搞好的不是政府是耶穌。Bloomberg的下一任De Blasio主要的競選口號一個是政治平等，一個是經濟平等，正好對應兩個Bloomberg治下紐約有爭議的攔人搜身 (stop-and-frisk) 政策和收入不平等化。攔人搜身政策經常被民主黨和自由主義人士（包括De Blasio）攻擊，因為警察藉此經常把少數族裔和高中生攔下來搜身，涉嫌種族歧視。作為鐵腕政治家(Blasio黑他是一個獨裁市長)，以及靠數據說話的人，他對於紐約警察經常騷擾良民沒有心理壓力，因為黑色和棕色族裔的犯罪率就是特別高啊。他說「要把小孩子嚇到不敢拿槍玩」，在我看來在大城市自然是無可厚非的—畢竟槍枝犯罪在美國還是很泛濫的。收入不平等化。。。在Bloomberg治下紐約經濟從金融危機恢復得已經相當快了，畢竟以前在華爾街混的招商引資很方便（Bloomberg通過168萬刀稅務減免讓高盛把總部搬到了Ground Zero）。這些大投行和富人進駐不但稅交得多，還可以刺激消費，收入不平等又怎樣？更重要的是樓上都提到的，Bloomberg大力發展金融業以外的行業，讓紐約曼哈頓以外的經濟增速在190年以來首次超過曼哈頓內部，這樣的措施對窮人夠意思了吧。
在紐約十二年，這個百億富翁是一個絕對的右派「獨裁者」，他以紐約資本家幾大佬之一的身份，在商界的絕對地位，讓政策推行無比得高效，雖然他作為一個「城市夢想家」，很多設想過於理想化，甚至有些把紐約城當迪士尼折騰的路數。。但再荒謬的項目，他都能落到實處，但是在自由主義泛濫的紐約，這種作風是毀譽參半的。。。我個人對他的評價（有些吐槽的意味）是：一位「留學中國」，並且「中為西用」的「市委書記」。為什麼這麼說呢？我們來看看他做了些什麼吧。
美國東部「科技園」
這個上面也提到了，當年布隆伯格跑到社會主義大農場—斯坦福來扯淡，叫「定義了現代科技傳統」的人士，不要在加州溫柔鄉裡泡著了，要集體「Go East」。。。與此同時，也談好了大NYC研究中心的設想。當時大家也覺得是說說而已，紐約是金融販子和藝術家們的天下，哪容得下屌絲理工男們，但是他確實做到了：
（1）城市科學與進步中心(Center for Urban Science and Progress)，基於紐約市撥發的1500萬美元資助款，城市科學與進步中心將會把大數據應用到實際的城市議題，在Brooklyn投建以NYU Poly周圍為基礎的科技園區，以工程研發為主，布魯克林商業區老交通總部、佔地15萬平方英尺的校園和創業孵化基地將於2017年竣工。微軟(Microsoft)和路創電子(Lutron Electronics)也將會與設在布魯克林的這個中心進行研究合作，除此之外，200家創業公司在布魯克林成立。
（2）「紐約市應用科學」(Applied Sciences NYC)計劃——其核心是在羅斯福島打造一個新的應用科學校園——也在提供資金和驅動力，確保紐約能夠與大數據(Big Data)聯繫在一起。原本是想和斯坦福合作的，後來換成和康奈爾合作，在羅斯福島簡歷科技研發中心。
（3）「大數據計劃」。紐約市為哥倫比亞大學新成立的數據科學和工程學院(Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering)提供了1500萬美元的資助；該學院將會從今年秋季開始提供證書課程，並最終招聘75名教授。NYU不甘示弱，紐約大學擁有新的陣線：數據科學中心(Center for Data Science)。
（4）「新長島計劃」。紐約的Long Island City 曾經是一個倉庫和工廠集中的地方，不久以後有望成為紐約市高科技推動者的理想之地：紐約的矽谷，越來越多的以高科技公司正在搬往那裡，其目的就是要將應用科技企業和長島的研究所集合起來，要打造一個紐約「浦東張江高科」。有沒有找到上海當年浦東開發的感覺？有沒有中國式「產業政策」的影子？有沒有政府牽頭招商，政府牽頭給政策的「新區規劃」的即視感？有沒有？你敢說布隆伯格不像我朝市委書記？？紐約從一個除了金融，時尚，設計，藝術和背靠的三州地區的一些工業以外，其他一無所有的城市，變成了科技之城，這就是美國版的「浦東新區」。
城市綜合治理
（1）加強基建應對人口增長計劃到2030年，紐約市人口再增加100萬人，達到約900萬人，住房供應和交通擁堵問題需要解決。但有兩個問題：首先紐約市的人口再增加100萬人，達到約900萬人，但隨之而來的住房供應和交通擁堵問題需要解決；第二，紐約市的很多基礎設施都比較陳舊，很多都已經有百年歷史，例如，地鐵。面對預期大量增加的人口，這些基礎設施亟待翻新；為了解決這些問題，需要的是「錢」和「土地」，對於大土豪彭書記來說，錢是第二位的，主要是土地。紐約市政府將紐約地區的土地重新規劃，將廢棄的工業區利用起來，建造更高的建築，吸引更多的住戶和商家。例如，在布魯克林區，沿著老工業區建造起高層公寓樓。在皇后區和長島那些被老舊廠房和工業遺址包圍的社區，也建造了一系列公寓樓和購物中心。
（2）力推公車改革紐約市政府擁有超過2.5萬輛交通工具，分屬十多個不同的市政機構，整合起來，統一運作。公務員通過訂車系統查找可用車輛並預訂。車輛的油耗情況線上查。公開拍賣不使用的車。這項改革節省了2.39億美元的開支。處理多餘車輛後空出的場地，額外帶來每年70萬美元的收入。市政服務並沒有受到影響如救護車的反應時間達到歷史最快。
（3）環境治理「計劃紐約」的25年規劃，旨在通過132個不同領域的項目，將紐約建設成一個綠色環保都市。6年中，紐約市增加了229個社區公園，800英畝綠地，種植了76萬棵樹。2008年，紐約市在100個社區設立了空氣品質檢測儀，經過4年跟蹤記錄，出臺相應整改措施，使市區PM2.5排放6年內下降了25%。綜合性環保措施使紐約市溫室氣體排放下降了16%，《紐約時報》調查紐約市空氣品質達到了50年裡的最潔淨水平補充：宏觀上面，失業率達到史上最低點，信用評級提升，人口增長到820萬，房地產蓬勃發展提升了房價。
Bloomberg離開前給紐約留下了什麼？11年給了Cornell $100 Million 和Roosevelt島建立完整的Tech center；12年拉著MTA和NYU合作在Brooklyn建立新的Urban Science中心；同年給了Columbia $15 Million，在上城建立新的Data science研究中心；13年支持CMU在Brooklyn開設Integrative Media項目。在如今兩黨整天扯皮，政客只顧舔選民屁股的美國，他的眼光 ＋ 執行力 ＋ 硬氣 ＋ 個人魅力簡直就是一縷清風。08至今，紐約的活力不降反升，沾染紙上，如果他能再幹八年，矽谷你顫抖嗎？
布隆伯格成功秘訣：找個理由留下
布隆伯格常說：我總是找一個理由留下，用所羅門公司的新面貌來鼓勵自己留下來。也可能我缺乏勇氣去嘗試新環境，也許因為我有尋求最佳的決心和遠見。無論怎樣，現在回想起來，留下總是正確的決定。
麥可·布隆伯格創造了從普通市民成長為常春藤精英的傳奇，後來他創建了聞名世界的傳媒帝國--彭博集團，以40億美元身價競選成為年薪1美元的紐約市市長而聞名全球。這麼了不起的人，最初的職場生涯，卻只能用重複瑣碎得讓人難以忍受來形容。
作為一名霍普金斯大學和哈佛大學的優秀畢業生，在一個地板布磨損、椅子破舊的房子裡做苦役，布隆伯格所要做的是：整天把小紙條按字母順序排好，每天早晨在兩個合伙人來的時候為他們準備好6支削尖的2號鉛筆和6支削尖的3號鉛筆，同時還要承受上司的責罵。
回憶這段職業歷程時，布隆伯格在自傳中這樣描述：「當朋友們問我工作的具體內容是什麼時，為顧全面子，我告訴他們我正在『研究簡化工作流程的方法和步驟』。別忘了，我的朋友們都是在舒適、有窗戶、鋪地毯的單間辦公室的證券分析員或投資銀行家，而我幹的卻是最底層的工作，我為什麼還不辭職？」
回憶起自己的職業經歷，布隆伯格對後輩的忠告是：「今天的年輕人在開始他們的事業時，對眼前的重複事務太沒有耐性了，完全忽略了工作帶給他們的教益和機會，他們不明白做助理工作同樣蘊涵著許多機會。」
「我負責每天早晨在兩個合伙人來的時候為他們準備好6支削尖的2號鉛筆和6支削尖的3號鉛筆。我原打算在所羅門幹一兩年，沒想到一直到15年後才離開。」麥可·布隆伯格說，「我總是找一個理由留下，用所羅門公司的新面貌來鼓勵自己留下來。也可能我缺乏勇氣去嘗試新環境，也許因為我有尋求最佳的決心和遠見。無論怎樣，現在回想起來，留下總是正確的決定。」
回去工作吧，忘掉今天的金錢，以後有很多時間搞錢。新手應該進到他們能進的最好的公司，然後就應該閉上嘴巴，學點自己還不知道的事情。
我們發現生活遵循這樣的規則：每天你都會遇到小而新奇的機會，有時你抓住一個機會就會使你走出很遠。可在大部分情況下，這些機會只會把你往前帶一小程。要成功，你必須把一點點增加的小進步串在一起，而不是寄希望於中一次頭彩。
我們取得的成就並不全是我們打算做的事情。在發展過程中，事物常常不像我們預料的那樣進行，我們的產品產生了沒有預料到的功用；有時出現我們沒想到的顧客--恰恰跟我們假想的顧客相反。計劃有一定作用，實際的思考過程有時會產生偉大的新觀念，但你只能取得環境允許你取得的成就。
那麼，無論你的想法是什麼，你必須為了實現它，付出比其他人更多的努力。
成事的人是自我燃燒，並且還能把能量傳遞給周圍的人，他們絕不是按照他人吩咐，等待他人命令後才開始行動的人，而是在指令到來以前，自己率先而為並成為別人的榜樣，是富有能動性、積極性的人。
Michael Bloomberg：」My key to success for you, or anybody else is make sure you are the first one in there every day and the last one to leave. Don’t ever take a lunch break or go to the bathroom, you keep working.「
Bloomberg Shares Success Secrets：
Luck Plays a Role, He Says, and Limit Those Bathroom Breaks
By MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL
When climbing the ladder of success, avoid spending too much time visiting the loo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg recommends.
On Friday, a caller to Mr. Bloomberg's weekly radio show thanked the 71-year-old billionaire for his service to New York City, the state and the nation before asking what he described as a personal question: "As you reflect upon your life, I'd like to know to what you attribute your success....Can you reduce that to a formula, a personal formula for success?"
Mr. Bloomberg gladly obliged. Everybody has different opportunities, different skill sets, he said, noting that luck plays a role as well.
"But my experience is that you make your own luck. The harder you work, the luckier you get," Mr. Bloomberg said. "I always tried to be the first one in in the morning and the last one to leave at night, take the fewest vacations and the least time away from the desk to go to the bathroom or have lunch."
What's that about bathroom breaks?
"You got to be there. I mean, everybody always says, 'Oh, that's crazy," the mayor, who has made public health a cornerstone of his City Hall tenure, acknowledged. But "you can't control how lucky you are. You can't control how smart you are. But you can control how hard you work."
So, is it truly wise to ignore nature's call?
Dr. Sven Wenske, an assistant professor of urology at Columbia University Medical Center, said, in short: No.
"That is absolutely not advisable—to not go to the bathroom," Dr. Wenske said.
He added: "It would overextend the bladder, it makes people prone to decreasing bladder function, increasing the risk for infections. So, this is absolutely not advisable. Whenever there's an urge to urinate—depends on the water intake and food intake, of course—people should not hold that back."
Dr. Wenske said one can hold it back for an hour or so, "if necessary," but "it should not be a habit."
Janet Hansen, who works for an investment manager in Manhattan, said it's important to work hard and be punctual. But bathroom breaks are "personal," she said, and if you have to go, you have to go.
Still, she concurred with the mayor in saying: "It shouldn't be excessive."
The mayor's spokesman, Marc LaVorgna, politely declined to discuss the tenacity of the mayor's bladder.
Mr. Bloomberg's other recommendations to the caller included taking risks, having the courage of your convictions, admitting errors, always continuing to learn and giving back to the community. And that was that.
"There you go," the mayor's co-host, John Gambling, told the caller when Mr. Bloomberg finished his spiel. "Well, good luck to you."
Bloomberg Shares a Few Secrets of His Success:
Be Early, Stay Late and Hold It In
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
He went from Eagle Scout to Wall Street titan, designed a machine that sits on bankers』 desks around the world and reshaped notions of New York City government.
On Friday, asked to convey the magical formula that has catapulted him to the elite of American political and corporate life, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ticked off a few of his tips for success: arrive early, stay late, eat lunch at your desk.
Oh, and don’t go to the bathroom so much.
That last recommendation — peculiar and abstemious, yet positively Bloomberg — was tossed off by the mayor during a riff on his regular radio program, and it prompted no small amount of mockery.
Even for a citizenry accustomed to a mayor who relentlessly tinkers with the minutiae of daily life, this bit of personal advice may have been a touch too, well, personal.
「If you think about it, this advocacy fits hand in glove with the soda ban,」 wrote one wag on Twitter, referring to the diuretic nature of cola.
「Mind over bladder,」 wrote another online wit.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Credit Robert Stolarik for The New York Times
Late in the day, an editor at New York magazine made clear he had taken the mayor’s advice to heart. 「Just went to the bathroom,」 Dan Amira, the editor, posted on Twitter. 「Feel like a failure.」
Mr. Bloomberg, no stranger to dispensing work advice, had tucked his restroom recommendations into a broad prescription, saying, 「Take the fewest vacations, the least time away from the desk to go to the bathroom or have lunch.」
It remains unclear if Mr. Bloomberg follows his own advice to the letter.
Several of his current and former aides declined to discuss the subject for the record — 「I don’t think I want to be commenting on the mayor’s urinary habits,」 said one — but a few shared their thoughts on the condition of anonymity, so as not to offend the subject.
One former City Hall official pronounced himself stunned that Mr. Bloomberg apparently demanded strictness in that particular matter.
「He drinks more coffee than anybody I』d ever seen,」 the official said. 「He drinks coffee like you and I would drink water if you were running a marathon.」
「It gives you a sense of the discipline,」 the aide said, sounding somewhat awed.
Stu Loeser, Mr. Bloomberg’s former press secretary, declined to comment about the mayor’s bathroom-related beliefs.
But Mr. Loeser said the advice was in keeping with Mr. Bloomberg’s broader philosophy of efficiency and hard work.
「He’s not into lollygagging,」 Mr. Loeser said.
There are no policies in effect about bathroom use at City Hall, according to a spokesman for the mayor, Marc La Vorgna.
Mr. Bloomberg does indeed eat lunch most days at his desk, a task made easier by the copious amounts of complimentary, low-calorie snacks and drinks available in the City Hall bullpen, as the office is called.
Mr. Bloomberg was an early adopter of providing free food in the workplace, instituting the practice at his media company as a way to encourage employees to mingle more and spend less time away from their desks.
His firm, Bloomberg L.P., does not have a formal policy about bathroom use, although several disgruntled employees complained to Gawker last year that the restrooms in the company’s Manhattan skyscraper were designed to discourage lingering — citing small space and a nonstop feed of Bloomberg Television.
Asked about the mayor’s advice, David Samadi, chairman of the urology department at Lenox Hill Hospital, said he admired Mr. Bloomberg’s push for efficiency, but thought he had picked the wrong example for it.
「As a urologist, you always discourage people from keeping their bladder full,」 Dr. Samadi said in an interview, noting that resisting the urge to urinate could lead to kidney problems over time.
Dr. Samadi added that a few minutes spent in the bathroom each day might cost a company less than footing the bill for an employee’s long-term medical bills.
Plus, he said, 「I don’t think it’s going to affect productivity, unless you’re out every hour.」
麥可·布隆伯格五大成功秘訣 Bloomberg's 5 Success Secrets
The following are some tips for becoming a successful entrepreneur based on my experience of building a company from the ground up, leading New York City as mayor, and founding a philanthropic organization.
1. Take risks.
Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.
In 1981, at the age of 39, I was fired from the only full-time job I'd ever had - a job I loved.
But I never let myself look back, and the very next day I took a big risk and began my own company based on an unproven idea that nearly everyone thought would fail: making financial information available to people, right on their desktops. Remember, this was before people had desktops.
In 2001, when I was debating whether to run for mayor, most people advised me against it. They all were afraid I』d fail. But one person said: 「If you can picture yourself giving a concession speech, then why not go for it?」 That was the best advice I received – and I followed it.
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail – and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
2. Make your own luck.
Luck plays a part in success, but the harder you work, the luckier you get.
Whatever you choose to do, even if it’s not the job of your dreams, always work hard at it. Be the first person at work in the morning and the last to leave at night. Hard work creates opportunities where your resume cannot.
3. Be persistent.
Persistence really does pay off.
When starting my company, I would go downtown and buy cups of coffee. Then I』d take the coffee up to Merrill Lynch – our target audience – and walk the hallways.
「Hi,」 I would say. 「I’m Mike Bloomberg and I brought you a cup of coffee. Can I talk to you?」
Even if people were wondering who I was or where I came from, they still took the coffee.
And I kept coming back, day after day, working to build relationships with potential customers. I learned about the audience for our product and what they could really use.
Three years after starting Bloomberg LP, Merrill Lynch purchased 20 terminals and became our first customer.
4. Never stop learning.
The most powerful word in the English language is 「Why.」 There is nothing so powerful as an open, inquiring mind. Whatever field you choose for starting a business – be a lifelong student.
The world is full of people who have stopped learning and who think they』ve got it all figured out. You』ve no doubt met some of them already – and you』ll meet plenty more.
Their favorite word is 「No.」 They will give you a million reasons why something can’t be done or shouldn’t be done.
Don’t listen to them, don’t be deterred by them, and don’t become one of them. Not if you want to fulfill your potential – and not if you want to change the world for the better.
5. Give back.
You are ultimately responsible for your success and failure, but you only succeed if you share the reward with others.
At the end of the day, ask yourself: 「Am I making a difference in the lives of others?」
My first charitable donation was a $5 check to my alma mater, Johns Hopkins, not long after I graduated. I was just scraping by back then, but I continued to give. And while the checks may be bigger today, they come with the same spirit. You don’t have to be wealthy to give back. You can give back by getting involved and giving your time and talents. You just have to be committed to opening doors for others.
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