Showing posts with label paper losses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper losses. Show all posts

Sep 2, 2009

It Took Me 20 Years to Become an Overnight Success


This month is 20 years since I published my first book called The Art of Seeing Double or Better in Business.
I self-published this book on creativity after the book was turned down by over 30 Canadian, American, and British publishers.
Since then my books have sold over 625,000 copies and I am published in 20 languages in 27 different langauges.
As the saying goes, "It took me 20 years to become an overnight success."
Funny thing, I still have to self-publish because publishers still turn me down.
Readers like my books but many publisher don't.
Here is the latest e-mail I received from Alex Vieira Silveira in Brazil about one of my books:


    ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Vieira Silveira To: vip books (at) telus ( dot) net

    Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:55 PM Subject: To Ernie Zelinski Hi! My name is Alex and Im sending this email from my job. Im reading a book of yours The Lazy Person's Guide to Success  and Im almost changing my entire life. [ I am hopefully helping to find a successful retirement job even if I don't need it and enjoying the retirement quotes ] As you say in the book I used to live under the culture of "a hard work will make you a sucess man" but I never really liked it and recently I've discovered that I dont even like what I do. Im studying what I like and doing this job at home, and the ideas appeared from nowhere showing me how to pay my debt of R$5000 in 2 months, so Im thankful =) Very thanks Ernie )
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