Your 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 AltucherPeople build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you canโt change life from the outside. We all know this now.
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 AltucherYour 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. 100 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.
James Altucher