Felix Dennis Quotes

British - Publisher May 27, 1947 - June 22, 2014

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

Money Addiction Making Money Cannot

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

Me Care Long Perception

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

Good Business Yourself Man

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

Life Money Vision People

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

Boss You Rich Never

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 startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

Failure Mind You Eat

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.

Good Success Sports Shoes

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

Small Negotiation Advantage Lies

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

Waste Industry Fantastic Obviously

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

Love Business Risk I Love

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

Money People You Want

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

Free Majority Vast Listens

'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

Love Business People Media

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.

Woman Yourself Man You

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.

Great Crazy Think You

I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

Tree I Am Forest Atheist

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

Money Power Aphrodisiac

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.

Crazy You Worth Suit

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.

Look You World Someone

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.

Health Down Safety Irritating

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.

Day Respect People Personal

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.

Mother Heart Respect Brain

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.

Day Night You World

I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

Me Proud Pleasure Selling

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

Great Live Poetry You

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

Age Celebrity Over Editors

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