There is Mike Litman too. He was a no body. Then he asked some millionaires if he could take their interviews on radio.

He bought air time and recorded interviews with millionaires. As he says it - only about 4-5 people heard those interviews.

But one day he transcribed those interviews in a book - and that book became a best seller on amazon.com

> Dien,

> Thank you for your reply.

> Yes, my friend, you got it absolutely right,
> -
> I DO maintain that the logic of success is
> circular, a big Catch-22.

> And I do maintain that this is not a matter
> of opinion (yours or mine) - it's a matter
> of FACTS.

> Once again - you CAN'T turn nothing into
> something. You have to BE a success in any
> shape or form in order to ACHIEVE success in
> another form...

> If this 'being somebody' sounds foreign,
> consider another form - you have to KNOW
> somebody to achieve something.

> Yes, I do fully subscribe to the brilliant
> analysis of Michael Ross and Boyd Stone.

> Yes, I think that the Silver Spoon debunking
> of success myths is THE most significant
> contribution to this board and to the
> 'theory' of success in general.
> (you can easily find Michael's and Boyd's
> posts by searching the archives for 'silver
> spoon')...

> The theory of success that doesn't take into
> account the Silver Spoon factor is a LIE,
> self-imposed illusion and the way to delude
> others.

> It's exactly like your beloved Quantum
> Mechanics - you can't get rid of the
> fundamentally IRRATIONAL character of
> success phenomenon...

> Your mother, happening to know the president
> of IBM.
> Your son BEING a genius.
> Your uncle 'happening' to have a million
> dollars to invest in your company.
> ....................

> And please, don't tell me that Feynman was a
> 'nobody' at some distant point in time.
> We both know that Feynman NEVER was a
> nobody.
> Call it 'genes', call it 'destiny', call it
> 'grace', call it 'silver spoon'.

> We may try to turn away from reality of this
> 'circular logic' all our lives - but without
> the factor of LUCK, GRACE... whatever.. any
> success-considerations are myths and
> delusions...

> And this 'luck', 'being somebody', 'knowing
> somebody', 'bumping into something' is NOT
> something secondary and peripheral - it's
> basic, the factor everything starts from...

> Simon