In a professional world caught between working smart and working hard, Michael Bloomberg always maintained that he favored hard work because he was no genius. Today, this stands as a controversial piece of advice, but it remains the core principle that sustained his business career and his time in public office. When he made his famous statement at a TechCrunch event in 2011, he was not just a billionaire CEO; he was actively serving as the mayor of New York City. "I'm not smarter than anybody else, but I can outwork you," he said, crediting this exact mindset for taking him from a low-level desk job on Wall Street to founding a global financial media company and serving three terms as NYC mayor.
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