Felix Dennis Quotes

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

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.

A lot of the ideas for solving many of our problems are already in place, but ideas don’t travel.

I've seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can execute is by executing.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

Donald Trump has a bunch of people who have been able to find the money they need for projects that they wanted to do and succeed at them and show a profit at the same time, and everybody involved wins.

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that's the kind of thinking that America needs.

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.

To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.

The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver you become rich.