"Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They……" — 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."
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85 Quotes by Felix Dennis
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Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous…
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The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of…
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Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose…
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Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.
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Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to…
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Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is…
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an…
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I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say…
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think…
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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and…
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
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