James Altucher famous quotes

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.
-- James Altucher

#Natural #Symptoms

Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.
-- James Altucher

#Opportunity #Long #Life Is

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.
-- James Altucher

#Talking #Listening #Want

When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.
-- James Altucher

#Light #World #Littles

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.
-- James Altucher

#Passion #People #Doe

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes
-- James Altucher

#Life Is

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.
-- James Altucher

#Beautiful #Real #Unique

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.
-- James Altucher

#Regret #Past #Healthy

What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
-- James Altucher

#Spiritual #Emotional #House

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
-- James Altucher

#Listening #Hours #Speakers

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
-- James Altucher

#Class #Entrepreneur #Robots

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.
-- James Altucher

#Together #Connections #Legacy

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.
-- James Altucher

#Passion #Rejection #Magic

Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
-- James Altucher

#Reinventing Yourself

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.
-- James Altucher

#Life Changing #People #Dolls

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.
-- James Altucher

#Ideas

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

#Persistence #Sides #Side Effects

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.
-- James Altucher

#World

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. 100 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.
-- James Altucher

#Kissing #Phones #Dust

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.
-- James Altucher

#Infinite #Results

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 dont support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
-- James Altucher

#Love You #Sacrifice #Ideas

I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.
-- James Altucher

#Order #Ideas #Firsts

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.
-- James Altucher

#Be Who You Are #Want #Pay

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
-- James Altucher

#Procrastination #Thinking #Needs

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.
-- James Altucher

#Book #Writing #Hands

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.
-- James Altucher

#Lying #Ideas #People

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
-- James Altucher

#Dream #American Dream #Marketing

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
-- James Altucher

#Honesty #Mistake #Way

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

#Entrepreneur #Trying #Would Be

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
-- James Altucher

#Suffering #Different #Disease

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.
-- James Altucher

#Honesty #People #Ego

It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.
-- James Altucher

#Being Yourself #Hate #People

Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
-- James Altucher

#Sleep #Entrepreneur #Mind

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
-- James Altucher

#Life Is #Sinuses #Arteries

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.
-- James Altucher

#Love #Grateful #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?
-- James Altucher

#Trying #Twenties #Lines

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!
-- James Altucher

#Decision #Important #Company

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.
-- James Altucher

#Ideas #Twenties #Sound

Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.
-- James Altucher

#Jobs #People #Energy

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.
-- James Altucher

#Dirty #Pigs #Mud

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head
-- James Altucher

#Gratitude #Dope #Anxiety

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.
-- James Altucher

#Stay Strong #Strong #Views

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.
-- James Altucher

#Past #Rocks #Rivers

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?
-- James Altucher

#Looks #Expanding

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.
-- James Altucher

#Real #People #Giving

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.
-- James Altucher

#Creativity #Thinking #Silence

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.
-- James Altucher

#Valleys

Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.
-- James Altucher

#Love You #People #Way

The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.
-- James Altucher

#Motivation #Fire #Light

Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events that actually make you laugh or fall in love. Only deal with the people who love you back, who are winners and want you to win too.
-- James Altucher

#Falling In Love #Book #Love You

Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity. It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.
-- James Altucher

#Grateful #Creativity #Compassion

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

#Creativity #Imagination #Helping

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.
-- James Altucher

#Worry #Stupidity

Luck is created by the prepared.
-- James Altucher

#Luck #Prepared

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?
-- James Altucher

#Blessed #Order #Not Good Enough

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.
-- James Altucher

#Winning #People #Unhappy

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.
-- James Altucher

#Wise #Men #Decrease

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.
-- James Altucher

#Creativity #Rushing #Silence

The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.
-- James Altucher

#People #Focus #Life Is

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.
-- James Altucher

#Purpose #Quests #Forget

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.
-- James Altucher

#People

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.
-- James Altucher

#Rejection #Faces #Fear Of Rejection