Words matter. These are the best James Altucher Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.
Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
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.
Most people don’t have the power of persuasion.
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don’t have to.
Games are all about taking risks.
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.
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.
I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, ‘Mom, you can’t believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.’
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
I’ve had lots of ups and downs. I’ve had situations where I’ve gone against the rules, and I’ve lost everything.
Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.
The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
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.
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.
Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.
Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
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.
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.
Mistakes I’ve made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.
My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom’s side who snuck in in a suitcase.
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.
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.
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 anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.
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.
Worry will never solve tomorrow’s problems. It will only take energy away from today.
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.
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.
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.
Products are valued higher than services.
I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
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.
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.
Honesty is about the scars. It’s about the blemishes. But it’s more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It’s about truly helping people.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every tomorrow is determined by every today.
Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.
