Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.
James AltucherThe only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.
James AltucherStick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.
James AltucherIf 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.
James Altucher