James Altucher Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.
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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.
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Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
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You can only make money doing what you love.
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We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.
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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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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.
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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.