{"id":13628,"date":"2017-02-02T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2017-02-02T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:08:12","slug":"michael-bloomberg-succeed-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/13628","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bloomberg on How to Succeed in Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F13628\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"13628\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F13628&text=Michael+Bloomberg+on+How+to+Succeed+in+Business\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"13628\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><p>Michael Bloomberg on How to Succeed in Business.He was the grandson of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants and the son of a dairy company accountant, and he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/first\/b\/bloomberg-bloomberg.html\">fired <\/a>before he was 40. But <a class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More articles about Michael R. Bloomberg.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/michael_r_bloomberg\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Michael R. Bloomberg<\/a> persevered to become, at last count by Forbes magazine, the world\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/michael-bloomberg\/\">eighth richest <\/a>person. He achieved this phenomenal success without a master plan. But in retrospect, his evolution \u2014 from Eagle Scout to graduate of Johns Hopkins and Harvard Business School, to bond trader and partner at Salomon Brothers, to founder of a business information network that bears his name and three-term mayor of New York City \u2014 was no accident. Mr. Bloomberg, who briefly mulled an independent campaign for president last year, shared some advice for students looking to succeed in business.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"media-100000004898824\" class=\"media photo embedded layout-small-vertical media-100000004898824\" data-media-action=\"modal\"><\/figure>\n<h4 class=\"story-subheading story-content\" data-para-count=\"18\" data-total-count=\"760\">Choosing a College<\/h4>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"473\" data-total-count=\"1233\">Nobody remembers where you went to school. The first job they may ask, by the third job they won\u2019t remember to. People put too much emphasis on that. It\u2019s much more important that you go to a place where you fit in and which has decent academics. People say they can\u2019t afford a college? My parents took out a mortgage, I had a job every summer working in a faculty parking lot. Then I got lucky, Sputnik was launched and the government created national defense loans.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-subheading story-content\" data-para-count=\"23\" data-total-count=\"1256\">Serendipitous Decisions<\/h4>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"325\" data-total-count=\"1581\">I think it\u2019s fair to say I had absolutely no idea what I would do. I went in thinking I wanted to study physics, but German was a requirement, so I changed to the engineering school. The whole idea of college is to expose yourself to various ideas and cultures and places, to minor in something different, to travel abroad.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-subheading story-content\" data-para-count=\"23\" data-total-count=\"1604\">Professional Curriculum<\/h4>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"415\" data-total-count=\"2019\">They\u2019re paying the STEM professor double what they\u2019re paying the liberal arts professor, because the marketplace says there\u2019s much more demand for those careers. I remember coming to New York in 1966 after Harvard Business School and I took philosophy and art appreciation at the New School. I did not have a good liberal arts education in high school or in college, but did it change my life? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-subheading story-content\" data-para-count=\"28\" data-total-count=\"2047\">An M.B.A. Matters, but . . .<\/h4>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"420\" data-total-count=\"2467\">The part that\u2019s most important in an education is how to deal with people. There\u2019s no job I know that you do by yourself, and I learned as much from the two guys I worked for at Salomon Brothers, Billy Salomon and John Gutfreund, as I\u2019d learned at Harvard. In the end, it\u2019s people skills that you need. Whether you remember that Columbus arrived in 1492 or not \u2014 a lot of the facts you memorize are immaterial.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-subheading story-content\" data-para-count=\"32\" data-total-count=\"2499\">Turning Adversity Into Advantage<\/h4>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"443\" data-total-count=\"2942\">At Salomon, I was \u201cdemoted\u201d as head of equity trading and sales to head the emerging computer systems area. If I hadn\u2019t gotten fired from Salomon, which became part of Citigroup, I wouldn\u2019t have gotten a $10 million severance, used my electrical engineering degree to begin my own information technology company and program a computer terminal for bond traders. I\u2019d be working for my girlfriend now, who\u2019s on the board of Citibank!<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-subheading story-content\" data-para-count=\"16\" data-total-count=\"2958\">Who Gets the Job<\/h4>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"583\" data-total-count=\"3541\">What disturbs me is you talk to kids applying today and they invariably say, \u201cI cured cancer, I brought peace to the Mideast.\u201d Spare me. How about, \u201cMy father never existed, my mother is a convicted drug dealer. I worked three shifts at McDonald\u2019s.\u201d That\u2019s the kind of kid I want \u2014 with an ethic of taking care of his family \u2014 because then he\u2019ll take care of others. Some of us don\u2019t have much prenatal intelligence, but nevertheless go out and try and have a decent chance of surviving. I\u2019m not the smartest guy in the room, but nobody\u2019s going to outwork me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"162\" data-total-count=\"3703\">Also, kids today brag about having had four or five jobs in the first few years. What a lot of people don\u2019t do is give it the old college try and stick with it.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-subheading story-content\" data-para-count=\"34\" data-total-count=\"3737\">What I Would Have Done Differently<\/h4>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"41\" data-total-count=\"3778\" data-node-uid=\"1\">Given the way things turned out, nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"41\" data-total-count=\"3778\" data-node-uid=\"1\">Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/01\/education\/edlife\/mike-bloomberg-salomon-brothers.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F13628\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"13628\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-1 counter-arrowed twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbestinsurance.gr%2Fa1%2Farchives%2F13628&text=Michael+Bloomberg+on+How+to+Succeed+in+Business\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"13628\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap arrowed\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><p>Michael Bloomberg on How to Succeed in Business.He was the grandson of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants and the son of a dairy company accountant, and he was fired before he was 40. But Michael R. Bloomberg persevered to become, at last count by Forbes magazine, the world\u2019s eighth richest person. He achieved this phenomenal success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13630,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions\/13630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}