James Altucher Quotes
I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.
Quotes to Explore
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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What vital U.S. interest is imperiled in who comes to power in Podgorica, Montenegro? Why cannot Europe handle this problem in its own back yard?
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My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
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When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.
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The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'
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Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.
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A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.
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When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.
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There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
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When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
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Attributed in the 'quote of the day' source code of the 'Fortune' computer program (June 1987); more at 'The Most Exciting Phrase in Science Is Not ‘Eureka!’ But ‘That’s funny …’' at Quote Investigator
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I'm always training to fight the best fighters in the world, and if the UFC wants me to fight Georges St-Pierre, then I will fight him.
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I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.
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Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.
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The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that would make me want to write.
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If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.
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Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment growth. By maintaining low inflation and low expectations of inflation, you can create new employment.
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I feel like I'm really lucky.
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I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.
