James Altucher Quotes
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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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My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
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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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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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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.
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Infinite patience gets you immediate results.
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The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.
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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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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.
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If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.
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Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head
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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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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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Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
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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!
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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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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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If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.
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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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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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I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
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Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.
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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.
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Games are all about taking risks.
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It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.
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Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.
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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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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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Luck is created by the prepared.
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