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 More Quotes by Felix Dennis More Quotes From Felix Dennis Anyone not busy learning is busy dying. Felix Dennis dying busy Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible. Felix Dennis belief self impossible 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 dollars suits crazy 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 crazy ideas thinking Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it. Felix Dennis names world 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 guy mother heart The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more. Felix Dennis cuckoos pennies ideas I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres. Felix Dennis land inspirational thinking The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a penny of capital but making many errors along the way. I went from being a pauper.. a hippie dropout on the dole, living in a crummy room without the proverbial pot to piss in, without even the money to pay the rent, without a clue as to what to do next.. to being rich... Felix Dennis money encouragement mistake People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life. Felix Dennis money happiness sex Talent is indispensable, although it is 'always' replaceable. Just remember the simple rules concerning talent: Felix Dennis rewards simple fire Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together Felix Dennis glue teamwork together For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world. Felix Dennis risk long people I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive. Felix Dennis magazines alive men Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry. Felix Dennis enormous fantastic waste Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know. Felix Dennis peers self-esteem hands Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does. Felix Dennis execution doe ideas Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances. Felix Dennis color race sex I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort. Felix Dennis tired should-have sleep 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 winning men promise
