Felix Dennis Quotes

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Felix Dennis

Profession : Publisher

Birth : May 27, 1947

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

Felix Dennis

America is not the center of the universe.

Felix Dennis

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

Felix Dennis

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.

Felix Dennis

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

Felix Dennis

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

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When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

Felix Dennis

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

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

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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

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

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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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Everything I publish is for my readers.

Felix Dennis

You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.

Felix Dennis

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

Felix Dennis

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

Felix Dennis

The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

Felix Dennis