Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler
How I Built This with Guy Raz
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The Importance of Writing a Book
When it was just about finished and I had a dummy of the book, there was one big bookshop in Singapore. And he spun the order round and pushed it across the desk to me. And he bought a thousand copies. Wow. Now we've sold 20% of our print runs, a one bookshop. Fantastic. So after you saw the success of that book, what is your next move? Another one, another one. People started coming to us with ideas for other books. We were living on you, Maureen's salary, while I worked on the books. It wasn't like you went out and raised any money. You were just... No, nobody would give us
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