Top 100 James Altucher Quotes
#1. Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.
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#2. 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.
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#3. I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.
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#4. Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
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#5. The 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.
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#6. How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don't have to.
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#7. Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.
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#8. Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
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#9. Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.
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#10. Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
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#14. 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.
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#15. I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.
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#16. 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.
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#17. But once you divide the world into categories, into an "us" versus "them," then you immediately become a "them" and lose touch with who you really are. And
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#18. perfectionism is sometimes the most dangerous set of thoughts you can let make their home in your head.
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#19. It's one thing to know "The Secret" or take whatever life-affirming steps you've read about in order to bring positivity into your life, but it's something else altogether to actually create opportunities for yourself. You're definitely not going to find them reading a book.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.
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#23. When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.
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#24. The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.
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#25. 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.
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#26. Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
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#27. Diversification is everything. You get past "this" by having lots of "that"s.
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#28. Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.
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#29. It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.
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#30. People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
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#31. if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will.
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#33. 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.
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#34. Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
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#35. But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It's very special to do. It doesn't happen fast.
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#36. Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn't have to be limited by anyone else's stupidity unless you allow it to be.
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#37. I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.
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#38. Remember to always tune your inner ear so you can listen for (and separate from each other) both the good reason and the real reason when anyone (including yourself) gives you an excuse.
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#39. Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.
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#40. 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.
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#42. If you don't give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
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#43. Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
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#44. Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them.
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#45. Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.
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#46. If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I want every talk I give to have people laughing at all the right jokes. I want everyone to like me all the time.
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#49. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
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#52. Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
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#54. Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.
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#55. When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.
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#56. 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.
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#57. It was almost as if a 3 a.m. religion existed, one that was self-reliant and relished how the world can be lived upside-down but still lived to its fullest potential.
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#58. Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
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#59. Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.
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#60. The way you get good ideas is to do two things: 1) Read two hours a day. 2) Write ten ideas a day. By the end of a year, you will have read for almost one thousand hours and written down 3,600 ideas. One of these ideas will be a home run.
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#61. Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
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#62. When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
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#63. One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.
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#66. 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.
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#67. Did you know the leading cause of suicide in the 1800s was dental pain?
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#68. Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.
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#69. Panic freezes you. Nobody is going to go into your head and take the panic away. But action leaks the panic out of your head.
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#70. When I give away a book for free, it gets my name out there. That has lifelong value for me that goes way beyond the few dollars I could maybe charge.
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#71. Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
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#72. When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.
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#73. The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
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#74. Noticing your reactions to suffering, anger, pain is the key to well-being.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
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#78. followed the one percent rule: improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.
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#79. Someone who is reinventing always has spare time. Part of reinvention is collecting little bits and pieces of time and carving them the way you want them to be. That is the Power of No in action: you say no to the superfluous distractions because you must find some time for you.
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#80. Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes
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#81. It's very important to enjoy what you're doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.
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#82. You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.
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#83. If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.
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#84. 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.
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#85. Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction-creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically. Always ask yourself, what can I improve? Who else can I talk to? Where else can I look?
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#86. If something is not a "hell, YEAH!", then it's a "no!
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#87. The definition of "success" for me is: "Is today successful?
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#88. 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.
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#89. Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.
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#90. Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.
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#91. I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.
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#92. The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.
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#94. 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.
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#95. I would watch either Michael Cera doing comedy or Louis CK doing stand-up. This would
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#96. The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
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#97. 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.
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#98. entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.
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#100. 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.
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