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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
Publisher
Writer
Kingston
Magazines
Business
Good
Men
Publishing

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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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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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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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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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The key to successful business is self belief and application.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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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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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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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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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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False praise is worse than no praise.
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If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.
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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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Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.
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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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America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
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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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