Every time you say yes to something you donโt 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, โI did it again.
James AltucherMy feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
James AltucherThe big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.
James AltucherYour competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who donโt support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
James Altucher