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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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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.
James Altucher
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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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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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Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.
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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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Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
James Altucher
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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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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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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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Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.
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Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.
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The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
James Altucher
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The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
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Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
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Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.
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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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Products are valued higher than services.
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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.
James Altucher
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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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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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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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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.
James Altucher