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    America is not the center of the universe.

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    America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

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    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.

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    Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] 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.

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    Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

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    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.

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    I cannot abide being bored.

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    Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

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    I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

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    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?

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    If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

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    If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

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    If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

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    I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

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    I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

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

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

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    I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

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    Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

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    Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances.

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    Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

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    Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

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    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.

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    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.

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    No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

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    Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

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    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 start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

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

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    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.

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    Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

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

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    Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

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    Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

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    Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

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    Talent is indispensable, although it is 'always' replaceable. Just remember the simple rules concerning talent: Identify It, Hire It, Nurture It, Reward It, Protect It. And when the time comes, Fire It.