James Altucher Quotes
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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It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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When I feel good, the crowd is behind me, have a great spirit, I think I can be very tough to beat.
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Sitting around with Jim Carrey, coming up with bits, is, like, beyond a dream come true.
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As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can't risk it all.
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We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
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I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
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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.
