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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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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
Publisher
Writer
Kingston
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Worked
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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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If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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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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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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Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.
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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 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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America is not the center of the universe.
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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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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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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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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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I love the business of business I love the risk raking.
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Knowing isn't doing doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.
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