James Altucher Quotes

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.

When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events that actually make you laugh or fall in love. Only deal with the people who love you back, who are winners and want you to win too.

Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

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.

Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

Don’t forget: when you start a website, it’s not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.