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60 Inspirational James Altucher Quotes (SUCCESS)

December 1, 2023December 1, 2023

Top 10 Most Famous James Altucher Quotes (BEST)

“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

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom. — Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy. — When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

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

Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day. — Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.

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

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

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

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

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday. — It’s how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

4 James Altucher Quotes on Reading

“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

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.

Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

9 Inspirational James Altucher Quotes About Life

“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

The only things that really matter in this world are the relationships you have with the people you love, and the meaningful things that you do. — The only things that really matter in this world are the relationships you have with the people you love, and the meaningful things that you do.

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

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.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes. — Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

“Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.”
James Altucher

Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures.

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

There is nobody you need to impress. There is nobody who is judging you. And there will be nobody who can stop you.

2 James Altucher Quotes on Personal Finance and Money

The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it. — The first rule of personal finance is that it’s not personal and it’s not financial. It’s about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever. — Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

3 James Altucher Quotes on Poker and Games

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game. — Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

Games are all about taking risks.

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling. — Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

10 James Altucher Quotes that Will Make You Think

“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

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing. — If you don’t live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

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

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. — 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.

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

“This is about a new phase in history where art, science, business, and spirit will join together, both externally and internally, in the pursuit of true wealth. It’s a phase where ideas are more important than people.”
James Altucher

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

If you can’t walk away from a negotiation, then you aren’t negotiating. You’re just working out the terms of your slavery.

When you rush to get to a mythical there, one day you will arrive and realize you missed all of the pleasures and mysteries along the way.

“I’m a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that’s part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.”
James Altucher

4 James Altucher Quotes on Creativity and Imagination

“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.”
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 humankind. — Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of humankind.

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. — 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.

Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

8 James Altucher Quotes on Business and Success

“No matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your audience is: 30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won’t care. 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

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. — 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.

Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind. — Don’t buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

“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

Luck is created by the prepared. — Luck is created by the prepared.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

“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

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

10 WiseJames Altucher Quotes to Live By (WISDOM)

“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

I have lots of ideas. How do I pick the right one? Execute on as many as possible. The right idea will pick you.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening. — If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

“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

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read. — Don’t time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don’t bookmark pages you’ve already read.

Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

“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.”
James Altucher

Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today. — Worry will never solve tomorrow’s problems. It will only take energy away from today.

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

“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.”
James Altucher

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