James Altucher Quotes
Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.
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.
Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.
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.
No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!
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.
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.
Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.
If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.
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.
The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not you.
It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.
It's very important to enjoy what you're doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.
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.
I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
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.
Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.
We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?
Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
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.
I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.
I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism although that's part of it but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.
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.
Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.
Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.
I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.
If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.
The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.
Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.
The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.
And by the way, I know my title said “10 Reasons” and I only listed “6”. I didn’t learn to count in college.
