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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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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I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.'
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As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work.
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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage.
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Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
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I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.
