James Altucher Quotes

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

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• As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Important
  • Rest

• I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Living

• A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Life
  • Women
  • My Life

• Let my enemies devour each other.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Enemies
  • Other
  • Devour

• I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Need
  • Negativity
  • Somewhere

• I would describe my personal style as eclectic.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Style
  • Personal Style

• Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Present
  • Yourself
  • Laugh

• When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Hard
  • Really
  • Unfinished

• Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

  

  Edith Head
  • Business
  • Ideas
  • Years

• Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Day
  • Myself

• In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Die

• I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Celebrity

• Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Why
  • Truth

• When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Story
  • Wanted

• I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Shoes
  • Jeans
  • Pairs

• Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

  

  Mahavira
  • Society
  • Same
  • Wealth

• We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Europe
  • Too

• It takes a lot of energy to teach.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Energy
  • Teach
  • Lot

• I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • America
  • Pain
  • Poverty

• Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Man

• I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Soul

• I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Lows
  • Fashionable
  • Stoops

• 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