Felix Dennis Quotes
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The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
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'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.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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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.
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Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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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.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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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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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.
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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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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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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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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.
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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.