Felix Dennis Quotes - Page 3

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?

False praise is worse than no praise.

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

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.

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

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

America is not the center of the universe.

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.

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.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

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

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

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

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

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.

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.

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

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

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

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

Everything I publish is for my readers.

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

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.