James Altucher Quotes
Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.
Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
People look for their passions. But often, the passions find you. How does your # passion find you? When you are good at something, you get passionate about it. That’s it.
It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.
You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.
Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!
If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.
Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
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 do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.
Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
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.
Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
People 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 can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.
Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.
The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.
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.
Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.
When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.
The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.
The six people you must find today... Someone to love. Someone to thank. Someone to be grateful for. Someone to forgive Someone to forget Someone to admire.
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 Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.
The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.
Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.
Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.
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.
If 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.
Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.
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.
