Felix Dennis Quotes - Page 3

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• When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

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  Home, Singers, Young

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

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• You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

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  Bored, Dying

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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.

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  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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• America is not the center of the universe.

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  America, Center Of The Universe, Universe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Mean, Pie, Looks

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• I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

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  Complaining, Radio, Faces

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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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• America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

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  America, Gentleman, Done

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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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• 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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• 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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• I cannot abide being bored.

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  Bored, Being Bored

  Felix Dennis (2013). “A Glass Half Full”, p.12, Random House

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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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• I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

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  Country, Reading, Population

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