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“America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.”
“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.”
“The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.”
“Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.”
“'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.”
“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.”
“Everything I publish is for my readers.”
“Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.”
“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?”
“The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.”
“I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.”
“The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.”
“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?”
“I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.”
“For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.”
“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.”