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Why Does Michael Bloomberg Refuse Fair Fights?

David Senra, reading Bloomberg by Bloomberg, says Michael Bloomberg refuses a fair fight because a business battle should never be even. Bloomberg was always up against companies many times its size, so each commercial contest had to start with an advantage. The company does not want fair fights. It wants to enter already ahead.

Senra sets that next to a Jeff Bezos line he had covered before: being one of the best is not good enough, because you should not plan a future in which you might have to fight someone just as good as you are. Bloomberg is making the same demand. Enter every contest with an unfair advantage.

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