Quotes from Felix Dennis

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.

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.

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

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.

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.

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

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

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.

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.

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

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

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 am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

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.

I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

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.

When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.