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

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
Publisher
Writer
Kingston
Business
Love
Raking
Risk

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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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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.
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When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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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 start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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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.
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Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
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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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Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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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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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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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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False praise is worse than no praise.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.
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Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.
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