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 startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. – Felix Dennis
America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done. – Felix Dennis
People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up. – Felix Dennis
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. – Felix Dennis
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. – Felix Dennis
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation. – 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
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. – Felix Dennis
I couldn’t care less what anyone’s ‘perception’ of me is. I’m too long in the tooth to care. – Felix Dennis
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? – Felix Dennis
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn’t going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head. – Felix Dennis
I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don’t sue journalists. – Felix Dennis
When I see something that’s wrong, I just speak and act first and I’ll take the consequences later. – Felix Dennis
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. – Felix Dennis
People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life. – Felix Dennis
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. – 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
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. – Felix Dennis
I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I’d give you everything I’ve got and everything I’ll ever have. – Felix Dennis
I have one talent, and that’s figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves. – Felix Dennis
There is never a time in a company’s history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity. – Felix Dennis
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true. – Felix Dennis
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. – Felix Dennis