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My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

If Google Books is successful, others will follow.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

Great books are rare.