Felix Dennis Quotes
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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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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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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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.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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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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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
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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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I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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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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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.
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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.
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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.
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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 startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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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.
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I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.