James Altucher quotes - page 2

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam. (James Altucher)
Games are all about taking risks.
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Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.
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Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
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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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Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
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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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Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now, your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.
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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.
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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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Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect. (James Altucher)
Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.
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Products are valued higher than services.
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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.
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Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.
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I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
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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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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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Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
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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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The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy. (James Altucher)
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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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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Dont 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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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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