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.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.
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.
From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.
My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.
Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
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