13 Quotes & Sayings By Felix Dennis

Felix Dennis was born in London, England, to a family of Russian Jews. He is best known as the founder of the pioneering British fashion house of London's "It" Girl, named after his daughter, It Girl & Model Management. The Independent described Felix Dennis's career as "a roller coaster ride that began with a brief spell at the end of the Second World War as a foreign correspondent for The Observer before running an organized crime syndicate, providing drugs to rock stars and introducing the world to the first supermodels." Dennis later founded the business consultancy Dennis Publishing.

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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. Felix Dennis
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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 startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. Felix Dennis
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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. Felix Dennis
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting. Felix Dennis
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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
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life. Felix Dennis
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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. Felix Dennis
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry. Felix Dennis
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry. Felix Dennis
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry. Felix Dennis
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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 i Pad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store? Felix Dennis
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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. Felix Dennis