Felix Dennis Quotes

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Felix Dennis

Profession : Publisher

Birth : May 27, 1947

I cannot abide being bored.

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

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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

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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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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

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

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

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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

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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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I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

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

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

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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

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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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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

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There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

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Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

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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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