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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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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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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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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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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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Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.
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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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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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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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Talent is indispensable, although it is 'always' replaceable. Just remember the simple rules concerning talent: Identify It, Hire It, Nurture It, Reward It, Protect It. And when the time comes, Fire It.
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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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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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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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Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.
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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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