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

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
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Kingston
Done
Financially
Gentlemen
Ladies
Gentleman
Britain
America
Ever

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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
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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.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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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.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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I cannot abide being bored.
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