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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

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I got fired and used my severance to start a company. Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me.

The Bloomberg Terminal is $25,000 a year and people pay it without blinking because it makes them millions. Price does not matter when the value is clear.

I spent $1 billion running for president and lost. That is an expensive lesson in the limits of money in politics.

Data is the most powerful force in business. The person with the best data makes the best decisions. That is not an opinion — it is math.

I have given away $17 billion because you cannot take it with you and your grandchildren do not need $100 billion.

Never take a job for the money. Take it for the experience. The money follows the skill, not the other way around.