The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it. - Felix Dennis
The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia. - Felix Dennis
The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth. - Felix Dennis
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. - Felix Dennis
'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media. - Felix Dennis
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber. - Felix Dennis
To become rich you must be an owner. And you must try to own it all. You must strive with every fibre of your being, while recognising the idiocy of your behaviour, to own and retain control of as near to 100 per cent of any company as you can. If that is not possible, in a public company, for example, then you must be prepared to make yourself hated by those around you who are also trying to be rich. That is the dirty, rotten little secret of it all, my friend. - Felix Dennis
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation. - Felix Dennis
Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory. - Felix Dennis
Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. - Felix Dennis
When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later. - Felix Dennis
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it. - Felix Dennis
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? - Felix Dennis
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. - Felix Dennis
You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well. - Felix Dennis
You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified. - Felix Dennis
You do not need to be clever. You do not even need to be that adept. You need only a little cunning and massive determination to become rich. Providing you can pay much cleverer but risk-averse people properly, and promote them and lead them in such a way that they are all rowing in the same direction, they will sign on to your little ship. - Felix Dennis
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. - Felix Dennis
You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them. - Felix Dennis
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