Explore Quotes by Felix Dennis

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

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.

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

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

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Everything I publish is for my readers.

False praise is worse than no praise.

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.

America is not the center of the universe.

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

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.

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

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