Felix Dennis

"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."

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

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

"I love the business of business; I love the risk raking."

"I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry."

"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."

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

"Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake."

"Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life."

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

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

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

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well."

"You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry."