Felix Dennis Quotes

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

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.

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

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

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.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

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.

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

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

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

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

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

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

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

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

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

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

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.

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

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

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.

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

Everything I publish is for my readers.

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

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

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

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