Felix Dennis Quotes

"Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake."

"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."

"False praise is worse than no praise."

"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."

"You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money."

"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."

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

"The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do."

"There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands."

"I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head."

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

"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."

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

"I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man."

"'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."

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

"The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over."

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

"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."

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