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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.
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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
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I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
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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.
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Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
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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.
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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.
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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
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We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.
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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.
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Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
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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.
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Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.
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
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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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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 -
Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.
James Altucher -
I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.
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.
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If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.
James Altucher
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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.
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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.
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The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
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The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.
James Altucher