If you don't give people a chance to fail... you won't innovate... if you wanna be an innovative company allow people to make mistakes.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

Every morning when we get up, we relish the day's upcoming battles. They keep us alive, and they keep Bloomberg's corporate family thriving. We can't wait for tomorrow. Who says we can't do that? What do you mean they'll beat us? Have them put on their boxing gloves, and send them into the ring. We're ready!