Felix Dennis Quotes

Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances.

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.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

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 start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

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

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

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.

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

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.

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.

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.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

'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.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

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.

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

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.

When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.

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

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.

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

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

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

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

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

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

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

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.

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

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

People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.

Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] 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.