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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
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Business
Love
Raking

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The key to successful business is self belief and application.
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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
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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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False praise is worse than no praise.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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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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It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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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.
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Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.
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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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Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.
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