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 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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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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Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
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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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Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can only make money doing what you love.
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I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
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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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Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.
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Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
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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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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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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.