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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
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Writer
Kingston
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Business
Love
Raking

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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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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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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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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
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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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False praise is worse than no praise.
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Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.
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Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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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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People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.
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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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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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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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