Quotes from Felix Dennis

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

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

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.

I cannot abide being bored.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

America is not the center of the universe.

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

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

Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.

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.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.

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

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.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

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

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.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

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.