Felix Dennis Quotes

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Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

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Dying, Busy

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.29, Penguin

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The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

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Ideas, Cuckoos, Pennies

Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.19, Penguin

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Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.

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Names, World

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Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

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Teamwork, Together, Glue

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For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.

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Long, People, Risk

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.49, Penguin

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Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

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Self, Impossible, Belief

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.105, Penguin

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The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a penny of capital but making many errors along the way. I went from being a pauper.. a hippie dropout on the dole, living in a crummy room without the proverbial pot to piss in, without even the money to pay the rent, without a clue as to what to do next.. to being rich...

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Encouragement, Money, Mistake

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People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.

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Happiness, Money, Sex

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.12, Penguin

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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.

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Crazy, Dollars, Suits

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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

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Crazy, Thinking, Ideas

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The key to successful business is self belief and application.

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Successful, Keys, Self

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If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

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Sometimes, Failing, Rich

Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.30, Penguin

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Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

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Mother, Heart, Guy

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Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

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Self Esteem, Hands, Peers

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.232, Penguin

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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

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Winning, Men, Promise

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Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.

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Believe, Bullshit, Venture

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.95, Penguin

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Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

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Knowing Nothing, Knowing, Done

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Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances.

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Sex, Color, Race

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.27, Penguin

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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

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Inspirational, Thinking, Land

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Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

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Ideas, Doe, Execution

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.70, Penguin

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You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

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Nothing To Lose, Advantage, Loses

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.28, Penguin

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Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

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Opportunity, People, Challenges

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.97, Penguin

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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

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Addiction, Making Money, Shakes

"The nine lives of Felix Dennis: 'I've lived an unbelievable life, even if I did do my best to kill myself'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2013.

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Talent is indispensable, although it is 'always' replaceable. Just remember the simple rules concerning talent:
Identify It,
Hire It,
Nurture It,
Reward It,
Protect It.
And when the time comes, Fire It.

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Simple, Fire, Rewards

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.99, Penguin

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Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

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Running, New Ventures, Entrepreneur

Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.31, Penguin

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