Quotes from Felix Dennis

A very rich travelling salesman, true. But still a salesman. A hired gun. But

No one can. You have to create, or work within, the right environment. Humans

Humans are a cooperative, if argumentative, race.

Stupid people are easy to hire.

Getting rich is mostly sleight of hand, but if you acquire no audience but a mirror, then there is no illusion with which to get rich. Paper

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

Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

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.

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.

No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

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

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.

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

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?