Felix Dennis Quotes

• Felix Dennis / Poet

I cannot abide being bored.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

False praise is worse than no praise.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

Everything I publish is for my readers.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

America is not the center of the universe.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

The key to successful business is self belief and application.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

• Felix Dennis / Poet

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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.

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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

• Felix Dennis / Poet

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