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If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

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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
Long
Always
Rent
Floats
Cheaper
Flies
Running
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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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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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 have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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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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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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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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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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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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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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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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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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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I love the business of business I love the risk raking.
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The key to successful business is self belief and application.
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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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