Felix Dennis

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage? ”

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. ”

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. ”

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man. ”

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. ”

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting. ”

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. ”

People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away. ”

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. ”

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. ”