James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, podcaster, and author. James co-founded over 20 companies and has published 20 books. He is a contributor to publications including The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and The Huffington Post.
Below are some of James Altucher’s quotes that will make you believe in yourself towards success.
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Best James Altucher quotes of all time
“The six people you must find today… Someone to love. Someone to thank. Someone to be grateful for. Someone to forgive. Someone to forget. Someone to admire.” – James Altucher
“Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.” – James Altucher
“You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.” – James Altucher
“Infinite patience gets you immediate results.” – James Altucher
“Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.” – James Altucher
“Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.” – James Altucher
“If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.” – James Altucher
“People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say ‘No’ to you.” – James Altucher
“The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.” – James Altucher
“The reality is: when you’re slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.” – James Altucher
James Altucher motivational quotes
“Games are all about taking risks.” – James Altucher
“Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It’s just scratching an itch.” – James Altucher
“Worry will never solve tomorrow’s problems. It will only take energy away from today.” – James Altucher
“If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.” – James Altucher
“Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.” – James Altucher
“Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. 100 years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.” – James Altucher
“Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head.” – James Altucher
“The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.” – James Altucher
“Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.” – James Altucher
“Don’t Time travel into the past. You can’t change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.” – James Altucher
“The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.” – James Altucher
“Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.” – James Altucher
“Luck is created by the prepared.” – James Altucher
“This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not you.” – James Altucher
“If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.” – James Altucher
James Altucher inspirational quotes
“What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.” – James Altucher
“Don’t forget: when you start a website, it’s not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.” – James Altucher
“If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.” – James Altucher
“The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.” – James Altucher
“The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.” – James Altucher
“It’s very important to enjoy what you’re doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.” – James Altucher
“Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.” – James Altucher
“I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.” – James Altucher
“If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.” – James Altucher
“The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.” – James Altucher
“We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.” – James Altucher
“Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.” – James Altucher
“We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?” – James Altucher
“When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.” – James Altucher
“Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?” – James Altucher
“I’m a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism although that’s part of it but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.” – James Altucher
“Being a leader doesn’t mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.” –
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“Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.” – James Altucher
“Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.” – James Altucher
“A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes about entrepreneurship
“Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.” – James Altucher
“The absolute best, surefire way to make a good living is to help someone else make a good living.” – James Altucher
“Entrepreneurs can’t use the excuse that “I don’t have time, I’m running a business.” This is your business.” – James Altucher
“The rise of corporatism (as opposed to capitalism) forced people into cubicles instead of out into the world, exploring and inventing and manifesting.” – James Altucher
“Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.” – James Altucher
“If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.” – James Altucher
“Mastery begins when formal education ends.” – James Altucher
“Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn’t matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.” – James Altucher
“In one column is the list of ideas. In the other column is the list of “First Steps” — only the first step, because you have no idea where that first step will take you.” – James Altucher
“Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction — creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically. Always ask yourself, what can I improve? Who else can I talk to? Where else can I look?” – James Altucher
“The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.” – James Altucher
“The definition of “success” for me is: “Is today successful?” – James Altucher
“I call this “permission networking”. My network is not the list of how many people I know. The strength of my network is how well everyone on the list of people I know, knows each other. Most people don’t know this important principle.” – James Altucher
“At any point in your career, you are either a thermostat or a thermometer.” – James Altucher
“I have lots of ideas. How do I pick the right one? Execute on as many as possible. The right idea will pick you.” – James Altucher
“Be an entrepreneur at work. An “entre-ployee.” Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value — any value — to somebody, anybody, and watch that value compound into a career.” – James Altucher
“IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money. Money gets depleted until you go broke. But good ideas buy you good experiences, buy you better ideas, buy you better experiences, buy you more time, save your life.” – James Altucher
“What can I do right now to move forward, in this second?” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes on business
“Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every ‘world’ I’ve been in, most people I’ve meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.” – James Altucher
“Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.” – James Altucher
“But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It’s very special to do. It doesn’t happen fast.” – James Altucher
“Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it’s more impressive than handing a business card.” – James Altucher
“Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.” – James Altucher
“Don’t buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.” – James Altucher
“I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.” – James Altucher
“No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It’s on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!” – James Altucher
“Branding jails corporate America but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.” – James Altucher
“In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.” – James Altucher
“I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.” – James Altucher
“You’ll have to hire people to expand your business. But it’s a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes on success
“It’s in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.” – James Altucher
“Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.” – James Altucher
“Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.” – James Altucher
“Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.” – James Altucher
“And it took him about 15 years of writing every day, writing thousands of poems and stories before he finally started making a living as a writer. He wrote his first novel at the age of 49 and it was financially successful. After 25 years of plugging away at it he was finally a successful writer.” – James Altucher
“TRY TO GET THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR YOU TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN YOU” – James Altucher
“The key to success is to approach everything with humility. To know that there is always something new to learn in this surreal art of being human.” – James Altucher,
“If I had only focused on big successes,” he said, “then I would be disappointed most of the time. You have to focus on the small successes and make sure to celebrate them.” – James Altucher
“Don’t be sad when you fail and happy when you succeed. Both are going to happen again and again at every new level.” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes on wealth
“This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.” – James Altucher
“The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.” – James Altucher
“I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.” – James Altucher
“Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.” – James Altucher
“Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man’s way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.” – James Altucher
“Don’t sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.” – James Altucher
“Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people’s lives for almost no cost. What a great return!” – James Altucher
“Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.” – James Altucher
“Don’t do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.” – James Altucher
“My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.” – James Altucher
“I’m invested in about 13 private companies. I’ve advised probably another 50 private companies.” – James Altucher
“I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I want every talk I give to have people laughing at all the right jokes. I want everyone to like me all the time.” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes on creativity
“Sometimes it’s better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.” – James Altucher
“If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.” – James Altucher
“You can’t make money without selling something real. You can’t make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can’t have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.” – James Altucher
“It’s easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.” – James Altucher
“Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It’s the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity. It’s the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.” – James Altucher
“People look for their passions. But often, the passions find you. How does your # passion find you? When you are good at something, you get passionate about it. That’s it.” – James Altucher
“It’s how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.” – James Altucher
“Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes on mistakes
“Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.” – James Altucher
“Don’t regret your mistakes. You’ll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.” – James Altucher
“Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.” – James Altucher
“Mistakes I’ve made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.” – James Altucher
“I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I’m almost embarrassed to recount them.” – James Altucher
“Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.” – James Altucher
“Don’t time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don’t bookmark pages you’ve already read.” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes on values
“Products are valued higher than services.” – James Altucher
“The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.” – James Altucher
“Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That’s the definition of disdain in my book.” – James Altucher
“When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.” – James Altucher
“Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.” – James Altucher
“Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events that actually make you laugh or fall in love. Only deal with the people who love you back, who are winners and want you to win too.” – James Altucher
“Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.” – James Altucher
“Don’t stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want – freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.” – James Altucher
“You can only make money doing what you love.” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes from Reinvent Yourself
“Habits. It’s the 5×5 rule. You are not just the average of the five people around you. You’re the average of the five habits you do, the things you eat, the ideas you have, the content you consume, etc.” – James Altucher
“Despair = Suffering – Meaning.” – James Altucher
“Noticing your reactions to suffering, anger, pain is the key to well-being.” – James Altucher
“But don’t limit yourself too much either. Always be looking for new opportunities to improve incrementally.” – James Altucher
“Talent had destroyed him. Talent is the tiniest of sparks. A spark lights the fire. But you have to feed the fire more fuel to keep it going. Else it dies out.” – James Altucher
“It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.” – James Altucher
“I realized that I was an amateur. I had spent my life pretending to be something I wasn’t.” – James Altucher
“The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, but that’s normal, because a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.” The media sells subscriptions. But every day we have a choice. To focus on what is growing in our lives, or the negativity and fear that try to bring us down.” – James Altucher
“Improving (or not improving) 1% a day is not even noticeable. That’s why it’s so easy for people to say, “Nothing is happening,” and inadvertently cost their lives 1% a day. Focus on that 1% improvement and everything changes.” – James Altucher
“SELL YOUR CLEVERNESS AND CREATE A SENSE OF AWE” – James Altucher
“Life is a gift. Don’t let your ego get in the way of fully experiencing and appreciating it. When we were kids, we laughed and asked question. As adults, we cry and shout answers. Sometimes it’s good to feel like a kid again, even at age 75.” – James Altucher
“I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.” – James Altucher
“Maybe most the important thing I learned was one thing he said to me toward the end: “Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make the thing that excites you come true? Are you fearless?” – James Altucher
“As Mac Lethal said to me, “Nobody remembers your bad stuff, just keep working at it and you’ll put out good stuff and that’s what they will see and remember.” – James Altucher
“So speak to influence. Don’t speak to call a flower yellow. Speak” – James Altucher
“Reinvention is never over. Today is the first day.” – James Altucher
“You have to ask good questions. “What can I do to improve?” or “How can I find a better job?” or “How can I be grateful that I lost this job?” Because inside of every problem is the seed of a “difficult gratitude problem” and it always improves your life to solve those problems.” – James Altucher
“Quote from the pope: “If we start without confidence, already we have lost half the battle and we bury our talents.” – James Altucher
“The key to an enriched life is to have a burning desire. Wayne” – James Altucher
“Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream. Our dad used to say that.” Dreams are in the head. But action creates growth, creates skill, creates excellence.” – James Altucher
“You need to find well-being from within. And here is what it is: FREEDOM RELATIONSHIPS COMPETENCE Increase those every day and you will find well-being. If all you do is the same thing every day, you will never increase those three things in your life.” – James Altucher
“SILENCE Don’t be afraid to go silent. Mirror and then have the confidence to go silent. Nobody wants the negotiation to end. They will keep talking and give you more information.” – James Altucher
“Learning never stops. Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early.” – James Altucher
“Doing my best in any situation is all I can do. If I worry about it while I’m doing it, I won’t do my best.” – James Altucher
“Speak to breathe spirit into an idea, to be enthusiastic, to convey emotion, to influence. This is the only way to have impact with your unique creativity.” – James Altucher
“This desire will enable you to seize every opportunity and create the life you want to live.” – James Altucher
“Thinking keeps the adventures of life bottled in your head. Action makes you a hero.” – James Altucher
“Take a job working for the rich shareholders of massive corporations so you can get paid less while increasing supply for the few who can have access to expensive cancer drugs, driverless cars, robots, etc.” – James Altucher
“Today I will try again. And tomorrow. And then the next day. If I don’t get better, I will at least have fun trying. And what else is there in life but to play as much as possible?” – James Altucher
“there is always something new to learn in this surreal art of being human.” – James Altucher
“Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early.” – James Altucher
“Every day, be creative. Creativity is a muscle.” – James Altucher
“But the reality is: reinvention is life. This is the call to adventure that constantly whispers to us. Do we answer it? Do we take the call?” – James Altucher
“Children laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults on average…five times a day. What else is there?” – James Altucher
“Defining freedom in different ways (reducing expectations, increasing sources of income so no one source controls you).” – James Altucher
“We should be focusing on building the things that don’t exist.” – James Altucher
“Finally, I started to care more about getting better than about winning. I started to study my losses. I would take my losses to my instructor and we would go over them. And that’s how I went from expert-level to master-level.” – James Altucher
“When I was running a software company, we always knew it would take one great programmer to solve a hard problem in one night versus 10 mediocre programmers taking a month to screw up a problem even worse.” – James Altucher
“Bonuses went up. And a rich person puts the extra dollar in the bank while a poor person pays the rent. So” – James Altucher
“In chess there’s a saying: “Only the good players are lucky.” – James Altucher
“I think they’re even married now. Or dead. Who knows?” – James Altucher
“Once you are beyond the event horizon, nothing can prevent you from going into the center of the black hole. You are swallowed up. It’s the point of being “too late.” Society” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes from the Choose Yourself stories
“If you don’t choose yourself, someone else will and the result won’t be pleasant.” – James Altucher
“Turn a few hours each day into a memory instead of a cubicle. Something you can laugh about.” – James Altucher
“Never have your happiness dependent on a yes or no decision from one person.” – James Altucher
“If you don’t live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excuses.” – James Altucher
“What is enough? It’s not a number.” – James Altucher
“if you can’t find the humor in everything around you, then eventually you find out too late that the joke is on you.” – James Altucher
“Did you know the leading cause of suicide in the 1800s was dental pain?” – James Altucher
“The entire time I was on TV was about 90 seconds. I had probably prepared 18 hours for those 90 seconds. Like most dates I had gone on in my 20s.” – James Altucher
“People do what they want until they are injured like a kid putting his fingers on the stove.” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes on happiness
“Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.” – James Altucher
“Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.” – James Altucher
“Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It’s not who we are.” – James Altucher
“When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.” – James Altucher
“How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don’t have to.” – James Altucher
“I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.” – James Altucher
“Filtering the people we allow into our lives is probably the most important factor in determining whether we will live a happy life or not.” – James Altucher
Always say to yourself, I’d rather be healthy than right. Because the infection of someone so wounded will spread to you if you engage.” – James Altucher
“And ultimately, a happy you will be the greatest contribution you can make toward a happy society.” – James Altucher
“People fool themselves into thinking that the currency of unhappiness will buy them happiness. That we have to “pay our dues,” go on some sort of ride, and then get dropped off at a big location called our “purpose,” where now we can be happy. It doesn’t work that way.” – James Altucher
“You can find the tools to be happy right now. I still don’t know what my purpose is. I’m afraid I will never know. That makes me very happy. Maybe I can have lots of adventures between today and the day I die. Maybe I can do lots of different things. And if I don’t—if I die even tomorrow—that’s fine also. What does purpose mean when we are dead? We might as well choose to be happy now.” – James Altucher
James Altucher quotes on life
“When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.” – James Altucher
“People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.” – James Altucher
“Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says “he focused on only one thing for his entire life!” Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.” – James Altucher
“Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.” – James Altucher
“Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.” – James Altucher
“Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.” – James Altucher
“When I give away a book for free, it gets my name out there. That has lifelong value for me that goes way beyond the few dollars I could maybe charge.” – James Altucher
“If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.” – James Altucher
“I saw ‘Star Wars’ when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.” – James Altucher
“We all want to declutter. To throw things out. But a minimalist lifestyle is bullshit unless you can do it across every sheath in the daily practice: not just physical, but also emotional, mental, and spiritual.” – James Altucher
“If you have a story to tell or a service to offer (it doesn’t matter what), love yourself enough to choose yourself. Take control of your work, your life, your art. The tools are out there. Now you just need to use the tools inside yourself.” – James Altucher
“DON’T LEAD A DOUBLE LIFE. Everything you do takes up space in your brain. If you live a double life (and you know what I mean if I’m talking to you), then that extra life takes up neurons and synapses working overtime. The brain can’t handle it. It starts to degrade instead of grow.” – James Altucher
“Collisions are the fundamental life-giving processes of the universe. Ideas are no different. The best ideas come from collisions between newer and older ideas.” – James Altucher
“This applies not just to customers but everyone in your life. Everyone. If someone no longer has your best interest at heart, then in your own self-interest you need to back off. Now.” – James Altucher
“With each obstacle, turn it into a moment where you can reflect on the bounty that is in your life.” – James Altucher
“My only hope for my future is I learn to dot the landscape of my life once more with question marks instead of periods. To turn judgments into queries. To turn “this” into “that?” To make every problem a maze. To be like a six-year-old.” – James Altucher
“Everything in life is about having as many options as possible so you can maximize your freedom.” – James Altucher
“Freedom to help ourselves so that we can help others. Freedom to live the life we choose to lead, instead of having to live the life that has been chosen for us.” – James Altucher
Famous James Altucher quotes
“Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.” – James Altucher
“I’ve had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.” – James Altucher
“Somebody has to be on stage, and some people have to be in the audience. That’s the only difference. Don’t put any thought as to why you are on the stage or how you need to be ‘better’ than the people in the audience. You aren’t better. You’re simply the speaker.” – James Altucher
“Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.” – James Altucher
“Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.” – James Altucher
“Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it’s time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.” – James Altucher
“Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.” – James Altucher
“I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don’t go up.” – James Altucher
“America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.” – James Altucher
“Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.” – James Altucher
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Who is James Altucher?
James Altucher is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, author, and podcaster.
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James Altucher is famous for his work as a hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, author, and podcaster.
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