Bloomberg's secret? Don't take loo breaks The 71-year-old, who is nearing his final term in office, used his weekly radio show yesterday to reflect on his career in business and politics. "I've always tried to be the first one in in the morning and the last one to leave at night, take the fewest vacations and the least time away from the desk to go to the bathroom or have lunch," Mr Bloomberg said. You gotta be there. He made the point even more bluntly in an interview with the website TechCrunch in 2011, saying: "Don't ever take a lunch break or go to the bathroom, you keep working. You don't ever know when that opportunity is going to come along. His reluctance to go to the lavatory is far from Mr Bloomberg's only eccentricity. Despite being worth an estimated $27 billion (£17.3 billion) he reportedly only owns two pairs of work shoes and has them resoled when they get worn down. Mr Bloomberg will step down from office in January next year but is expected to remain in the public arena fighting on the issues of climate change and gun control.