James Altucher Quotes

I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.

James Altucher

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• Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.

  

  Harry Browne
  • America
  • Say
  • Someone

• I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Character
  • Age

• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Good
  • Why

• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Different
  • American
  • Lost

• You don't have to get it right the first time.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Time
  • You
  • First

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Work
  • Live
  • Facts

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• I actually like football a great deal.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Great
  • Football
  • Like

• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• I resent ever being stereotyped.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Being
  • Ever
  • Resent

• I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Think
  • Death
  • Day

• No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Past
  • Without
  • Some

• I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Comedy

• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Hope
  • New
  • Recovery

• With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Old

• Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Men
  • Politics
  • Married

• 'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Will
  • Sure
  • Glued

• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Writing

• Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Community
  • Process
  • News

• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Age
  • Past
  • Culture

• When you're doing well and you're successful, part of being successful is that you get interviewed. But it ruins the moment.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin

• I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.

  

  James Altucher
  • Business
  • Financial