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James Altucher
American
Author
Born:
Jan 23
,
1968
About
Me
People
Time
Will
You
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Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.
James Altucher
Time
You
World
Entrepreneur
Safety
Ways
Promised
About
Student
Writer
Employee
Comfort
Forgetting
Whether
Homemaker
Start
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
James Altucher
Failure
Experience
Feeling
Own
Aiming
My Own
Based
Route
Fastest
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
James Altucher
You
Procrastination
Think
Back
Bit
Telling
About
More
Doing
Off
Body
Your
Your Body
Need
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
Everything
Would
Would-Be
Find
Delegate
More
Costs
Entrepreneurs
Cheaper
Trying
Many
Even
Monetary
Associated
When I give away a book for free, it gets my name out there. That has lifelong value for me that goes way beyond the few dollars I could maybe charge.
James Altucher
Me
Book
Value
Free
Few
Way
Out
Charge
Give
Could
Lifelong
Name
Beyond
Dollars
Goes
Gets
Maybe
Away
You can only make money doing what you love.
James Altucher
Love
You
Money
Only
Make
Doing
What You Love
I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
James Altucher
Love
People
Building
Community
Intimate
Readers
Being
Being Honest
Honest
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
Home
You
Experience
Job
Living
Corporate
Total
Stuck
Takes
Know
Making
Making A Living
Years
Begin
Personal
Personal Experience
Any
Scratch
Want
Transition
Plan
Sweat
Much
Now
Right
Career
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
James Altucher
Game
Pretending
Poker
Skill
Chance
My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
James Altucher
Mom
Suitcase
Side
States
Immigrant
Had
He
Another
Years
Grandfather
Illegal
Who
United
United States
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
Best
Ego
Will
Advice
Favorite
Vulnerable
Makes
Always
Very
Flatters
Them
Ask
Your
Technique
It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
James Altucher
Sky
Will
Black
Stars
Worm
Black Holes
Entire
Open
New
Know
Up
Which
Holes
Turn
Hard
Universes
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
James Altucher
Science
Smart
Old
Word
Think
Would
Magazines
Science Fiction
Years
Fiction
Stories
Teachers
Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.
James Altucher
You
Every
Out
Boring
Write
Read
Sounds
Loud
Sentence
Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.
James Altucher
Life
People
Cold
Intimacy
Stay
Through
Story
Warm
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.
James Altucher
Me
People
Later
Emails
Respond
About
Weeks
Never
Lot
Times
Times People
Forget
Send
Them
Then
Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.
James Altucher
Me
Phone
Someone
Computer
Talk
Dial
Little
Then
App
Here
Numbers
You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.
James Altucher
Time
You
People
Spend
Five
Average
Your
Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.
James Altucher
You
Wealth
First
Creation
Investing
Make
Preservation
The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.
James Altucher
Finance
People
TV
TV Shows
About
Know
Personal
Who
Shows
We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.
James Altucher
Future
Incredibly
Our
Poor
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
James Altucher
Great
You
Leader
Past
Other
Kind
Some
Something
Given
Person
Authority
Did
Any
Being
Being A Leader
In The Past
Mean
Created
I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'
James Altucher
Today
Good
Day
Mom
Me
You
People
End Of The Day
Leader
Believe
Good Leader
Tell
About
Call
Always
Mothers
End
Surrounded
Did
Them
Who
Imagine
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.
James Altucher
You
Yourself
People
Way
Say
Bad
About
Feel
Make
Anxious
Any
Who
The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.
James Altucher
Life
You
Have Fun
Universe
One Thing
More
Purpose
Learns
How
Doing
Than
Maybe
Wants
Us
Fun
Thing
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