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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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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
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Writer
Kingston
Done
Gets
Knowing
Nothing

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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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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.
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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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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.
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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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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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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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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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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, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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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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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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Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
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