The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
— Felix Dennis
People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
I cannot abide being bored.
I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.
You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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.
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.
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.
I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
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.
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.
Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
'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.
Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
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.
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?
I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
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.
This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.
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.
