Felix Dennis Quotes

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Felix Dennis

Profession : Publisher

Birth : May 27, 1947

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

Felix Dennis

Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

Felix Dennis

There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

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America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

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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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False praise is worse than no praise.

Felix Dennis

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

Felix Dennis

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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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.

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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.

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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.

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

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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

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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.

Felix Dennis