Felix Dennis Quotes
Top 72 wise famous quotes and sayings by Felix Dennis
Felix Dennis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
By focusing hard on obtaining that human capital you will vastly increase your chances of becoming rich. Stupid
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.
You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.
Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances.
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.
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.
Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.
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.
I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.
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.
America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
The problem with rich lists is ... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.
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.
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.
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.
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.
Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.