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The key to successful business is self belief and application.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
Publisher
Writer
Kingston
Successful
Belief
Business
Self
Application
Keys

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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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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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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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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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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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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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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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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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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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I love the business of business I love the risk raking.
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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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