Quotes by Felix Dennis

About Felix Dennis:

Felix Dennis is published in the UK and the United States.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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.

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

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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

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I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.

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

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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.

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

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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.

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In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.

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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 els...

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

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

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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

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

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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

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Author Bio

  • NameFelix Dennis
  • DescriptionEnglish publisher, poet, spoken word performer and philanthropist
  • BornMay 27, 1947
  • DiedJune 22, 2014
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPublisher; Writer