James Altucher Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
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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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Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
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My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
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Most people don't have the power of persuasion.
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If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.
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Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.
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Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.
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Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.
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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.
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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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I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'
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You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.
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I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.
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Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
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The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
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Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
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Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now, your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.
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The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
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I saw 'Star Wars' when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.