Mike Bloomberg, the surging billionaire who seems like he came from nowhere, has a long and rich public record. Here are 55 things you need to know about the former New York mayor.
.” He wrote a letter to Swayze explaining that the one-humped mascot on the cigarette package was not in fact a camel but specifically a dromedary.
7. At Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he was an engineering major, a mostly C student, the first Jewish member of Phi Kappa Psi, the president of his fraternity and the president of his class. He talked to his friends about wanting to be the president of the United States.Flat feet10. His first job after grad school, starting in June 1966, was at Salomon Brothers, the Wall Street investment bank, where he counted securities by hand and made $9,000 a year.
13. He smoked until he was in his early 30s. He quit by imagining his worst enemy outliving him. Who that was, or is, he has never said. 20. In 1986, he changed the name of his company from Innovative Market Systems to Bloomberg LP, part of a conscious effort to make himself central to the brand’s image.him for his birthday in 1990: “Make the customer think he’s getting laid when he’s getting fucked.” “The three biggest lies are: The check’s in the mail, I’ll respect you in the morning, and I’m glad that I’m Jewish.” “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s.
32. He took an annual salary as mayor of $1. After Social Security deductions, he once said, his paychecks came to 93 cents. He framed them uncashed. 35. On his second mayoral campaign, he spent $85 million of his own money. He ran targeted ads in Spanish and Russian and Mandarin and Urdu. He won by nearly 20 points, the biggest victory margin ever for a Republican mayor of New York.
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