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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
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Writer
Kingston
Boss
Rich
Working
Never

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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 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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America is not the center of the universe.
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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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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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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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If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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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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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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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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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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Knowing isn't doing doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.
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Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.
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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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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
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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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The key to successful business is self belief and application.
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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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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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