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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
Publisher
Writer
Kingston
Floats
Cheaper
Flies
Running
Money
Long
Always
Rent

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I love the business of business I love the risk raking.
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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 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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Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.
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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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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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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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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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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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Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run
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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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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
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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 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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