James Altucher Quotes
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The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.
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Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
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Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
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Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.
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You can only make money doing what you love.
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I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I want every talk I give to have people laughing at all the right jokes. I want everyone to like me all the time.
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If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.
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Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
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I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.
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In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
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Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
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Games are all about taking risks.
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Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.
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When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.
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Every tomorrow is determined by every today.
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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.
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It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
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Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.
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I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
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Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.
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I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.
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Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.
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The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.
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A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.