Felix Dennis Quotes

I cannot abide being bored.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

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.

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.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

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

The key to successful business is self belief and application.

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

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

America is not the center of the universe.

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.

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

False praise is worse than no praise.

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

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

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