New York mayor advises in book: 'Do The Hard Things First'
NEW YORK (AFP) — The billionaire mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, has written a book giving advice on politics and business that will go on sale in September, the book publisher said Tuesday.
Profits from the sale of "Do The Hard Things First," co-written with journalist Margaret Carlson, will be donated to the World Trade Center memorial foundation, said book publisher Vanguard Press.
"Most people go from government into business. I did it the other way around," wrote Bloomberg, 66, according to advance text delivered by Vanguard.
"Creating a successful enterprise from scratch was an education like no other, and running a successful city is an education every day.
"Over the course of both my private and public sector careers, I've learned a set of rules that I believe offer guidance that people of all professions will find useful," wrote Bloomberg.
A former Wall Street trader who founded the financial news service bearing his name, Bloomberg has an estimated fortune of 11.5 billion dollars, according to Forbes magazine, making him the 25th richest man in the United States.
He is believed to have spent more than 150 million dollars of his own money to get elected as New York mayor in 2001 and again in 2005.
Bloomberg, a former Democrat, was elected mayor of New York as a Republican. He became an independent in mid-2007.
This is his second book: in 1997 he wrote an autobiography titled "Bloomberg by Bloomberg."
