Felix Dennis Quotes - Page 3

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• I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

  Felix Dennis

  Long, Perception, Teeth

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• Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

  Felix Dennis

  Money, People, Degrees

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.14, Penguin

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• If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

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  Luck, Influence, Delusion

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.59, Penguin

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• America is not the center of the universe.

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  America, Center Of The Universe, Universe

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• People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

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  Thinking, Tunnels, People

  "Dennis the menace" by Michael Pilgrim, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2002.

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• I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

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  Giving, Let Me, Objects

  "This much I know: Felix Dennis". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

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• Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.

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  Shy, Customers

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.90, Penguin

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• No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

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  Girl, Long, Dresses

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• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

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  Ecosystems, Tree, Important

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• It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

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  Sunset, Long, Ink

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• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

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  Sorrow, Fleeting, Form

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

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  Art, Leader, Form

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• You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

  Felix Dennis

  Mean, Pie, Looks

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• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

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  Cash Flow, Mind, Mutiny

  "The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money".

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• No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

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  Glorious, Persons, Left

  "'Drunks talk trash, don't they?'". Interview with William Leith, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

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  Earning, Wealth, Form

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• I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

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  Redeemed, Convinced

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• Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

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  Men, Magazines, Good Business

  "Beating the big boys at their own game" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2005.

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• You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

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  Writing, Great Poetry, Garage

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• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

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  Fun, Play, Two

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

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  Errors, People, Email

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• As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

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  World, Wealth, Rich

  Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.12, Penguin

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• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

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  Years, Two Year Olds, Glitches

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• With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

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  Book, Ipads, People

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• The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

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  Hate, Forests, Planets

  "This much I know: Felix Dennis". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

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