Quotes from James Altucher

If you think, "Everything would be better off if I were dead," then think, "That's really cool. Now I can do anything I want and I can postpone this thought for a while, maybe even a few months." Because what does it matter now? The planet might not even be around in a few months. Who knows what could happen with all these solar flares.

focusing your mind and making it work, you are fine-tuning it; you are turning it into an asset.

oxytocin is the "god hormone.

Companies simply don't need the same amount of people anymore to be as productive as they've always been. We are moving toward a society without employees. It's not here yet. But it will be. And that's okay.

Not everyone is an entrepreneur. Not everyone wants to be one.

Nobody questions anything if you have confidence, intelligence, and you are proud of your product.

Speak to breathe spirit into an idea, to be enthusiastic, to convey emotion, to influence. This is the only way to have impact with your unique creativity.

As we move toward the employee-less society, where ideas become currency and innovation gets rewarded more than manual or managerial services, you will have the opportunity to live a life you want to. In I Was Blind but Now I See, I wrote about how people no longer needed a home or an education. How both are leashes that society has created to hold you down and prevent you from growth.

Persistence creates luck.

Ultimately we are the sum of our experiences and not the sum of our belongings.

Blogging is not about money. Blogging is about trust.

In life, you will always have 30 percent of people who love you, 30 percent who hate you and 30 percent who couldn't care less.

When you expose yourself there are many ways for people to attack you. People will stab you and hurt you. But you can't create art unless you show how unique you are while being inclusive with others who share your problems.

There were about ten different areas I needed to improve and gradually I improved them all and sold the company a year later. EXPAND THE

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.

IMPROVE YOUR APPROACH. You keep getting rejected in bars? Find a different place, where the odds aren't stacked against you. Nobody responding to your networking e-mails for "Ten minutes of your time please?" Then offer something. Give something for free so people immediately see value in your approach immediately. You keep cold-calling customers and they hang up? Find a different way to get distribution. CHANGE UP, DON'T GIVE UP.

Turn a few hours each day into a memory instead of a cubicle. Something you can laugh about.

you will always have 30 percent of people who love you, 30 percent who hate you and 30 percent who couldn't care less." When I heard that, my entire

I don't like the word purpose. It implies that somewhere in the future I will find something that will make me happy, and that until then, I will be unhappy. People fool themselves into thinking that the currency of unhappiness will buy them happiness. That we have to "pay our dues," go on some sort of ride, and then get dropped off at a big location called our "purpose," where now we can be happy.

Should I listen to venture capitalists? Yes, of course. They gave you money. But then don't do anything they ask you to do.

Society is made up of individuals. The only way to improve society is to come at it from a place of deep, individual satisfaction. The only way to do that is to spend long periods of time just being silent. Find out who the real you is.

In every business, I've loved meeting my competitors. The reality is there's no such thing as competition. The world is big enough for two people in the same space.

yogis measure their lives in breaths, not years. Deep breathing is what keeps those breaths going.

I think bitcoin has about a 1 in 100 chance of being a survivor. So I have 1% of my portfolio in bitcoin.