Felix Dennis Quotes

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Felix Dennis

Profession : Publisher

Birth : May 27, 1947

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

Felix Dennis

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

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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.

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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 else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

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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.

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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.

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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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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

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'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.

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

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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

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

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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

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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.

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

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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

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

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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

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