Felix Dennis Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Felix Dennis

  Inspirational, Thinking, Land

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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.

  Felix Dennis

  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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• Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

  Felix Dennis

  Errors, Forget, Made

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.96, Penguin

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• Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

  Felix Dennis

  Sports, Nike, Athlete

  Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.45, Penguin

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

  Felix Dennis

  Earning, Wealth, Form

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• Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

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  Things In Life, Certain

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.45, Penguin

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• I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

  Felix Dennis

  Advice, Scratches, Empires

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

  Felix Dennis

  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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• America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

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  Bullying, America, Definitions

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• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  Felix Dennis

  Artist, Entrepreneur, Routine

  "Felix Dennis talks iPad poetry, Apple approvals and tablets for the elderly". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

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  Two, People, Want

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• I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

  Felix Dennis

  Risk

  "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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• Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

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  Waste, Fantastic, Enormous

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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.

  Felix Dennis

  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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• Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

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  Money, Quality, May

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.15, Penguin

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• I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

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  Men, Magazines, Alive

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• When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.

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  Real, Responsibility, New Ventures

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.98, Penguin

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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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• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

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  People, Use, World

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• Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

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  Expectations, Fever, Too Much

  "Felix Dennis's top 10 anti-poverty books" by Felix Dennis, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2006.

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• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

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  Sleep, Tired, Should Have

  "What I know about women". Interview with Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2006.

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• Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

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  Cutting, Force, Short Cuts

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• False praise is worse than no praise.

  Felix Dennis

  Praise

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• Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

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  Laughter, Night, Ideas

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• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

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  Apples, People, Magazines

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