James Altucher quotes

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy. (James Altucher)
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!
James Altucher
If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.
James Altucher
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 don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
James Altucher
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.
James Altucher
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.
James Altucher
Luck equals (1) diversification plus (2) persistence.
James Altucher
The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
James Altucher
Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.
James Altucher
Every day you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
James Altucher
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. (James Altucher)
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.
James Altucher
If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.
James Altucher
Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
James Altucher
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.
James Altucher
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.
James Altucher
When you don't choose, you excuse.
James Altucher
Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
James Altucher
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
James Altucher
The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.
James Altucher
People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you. (James Altucher)
Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.
James Altucher
Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.
James Altucher
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.
James Altucher
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher