Felix Dennis

“There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.”

“The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.”

“I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.”

“I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'”

“I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.”

“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.”

“There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.”

“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.”

“I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.”

“I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.”

“The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.”

“I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.”

“It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.”

“Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.”

“Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.”

“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.”

“The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.”

“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.”

“I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.”

“Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.”