Bernie Elsey Snr was a property developer and entrepreneur, associated with early developments on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Elsey, born in England in 1906, migrated to Australia at the age of 9. He had little formal education, and his distinguishing feature was his chronic stuttering. Elsey worked in the mundane trade of plumbing in Toowoomba, Queensland until he was 40. His motto was \"To succeed in life, you have to sell yourself and believe in what you are doing\". He did succeed in spite of apparent impediments. He was unorthodox as well as grossly confident. After quitting the plumbing trade, he embarked on a new career by gambling on his salesmanship and offering himself to a Brisbane food wholesaler (Sanitarium) without pay for a month\s trail. Again he succeeded and after a successful interlude with his own food distribution business arrived on the Gold Coast in
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