Quotes from Felix Dennis

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

The key to successful business is self belief and application.

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.