James Altucher Quotes
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Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.
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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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Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.
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You can only make money doing what you love.
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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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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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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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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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Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
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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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Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.
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Games are all about taking risks.
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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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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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Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.
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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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Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.
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Most people don't have the power of persuasion.
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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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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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The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.
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Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.