James Altucher Quotes

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

James Altucher

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• Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dad

• As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Latin
  • Train
  • Early

• Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Always
  • Genius
  • Clouds

• I love women more than anything.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Women
  • Love
  • More

• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wish
  • Nothing
  • Remarkable

• Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Men
  • Stronger
  • Weakness

• As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • English

• It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Needs
  • Story

• I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Happen

• You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Time
  • Great
  • You

• Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Man

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Time
  • Down
  • Back

• Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Same

• I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Talent

• I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Cold
  • Year
  • Canada

• Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Stories
  • Rich

• After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband!

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• Just being a girl coming from YouTube, I know what it's like to have a very humble, simple beginning. It would be kinda crazy for my fans if I made it huge in that way and became the next big thing. I wanna be able to do it for them and say, 'Look, this is what you've done for me.'

  

  Christina Grimmie
  • Done
  • Girl
  • Simple

• I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • World
  • Great
  • Alone

• My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Good
  • Music
  • Together

• Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

  

  James Altucher