James Altucher Quotes
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Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
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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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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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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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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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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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You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.
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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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Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.