James Altucher Quotes
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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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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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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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Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
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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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Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.
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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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Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
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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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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 saw 'Star Wars' when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.
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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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Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
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Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.
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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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The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.
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You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.
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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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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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I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
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Somebody has to be on stage, and some people have to be in the audience. That's the only difference. Don't put any thought as to why you are on the stage or how you need to be 'better' than the people in the audience. You aren't better. You're simply the speaker.
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People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
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I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.
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America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.