James Altucher Quotes
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Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.
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How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don't have to.
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America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.
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Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
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Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.
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I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.
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The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
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The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
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I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.
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When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
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Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
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Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
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Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
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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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When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
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Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
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Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.
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Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.
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My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
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Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
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Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
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Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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Products are valued higher than services.