Quotes from James Altucher

if you know someone who can't afford it, then please let me know and I will send it to them for free).

Finally, try to label your thoughts: "future" or "past." If you can do that, you stand a pretty good chance of remaining in the present.

This desire will enable you to seize every opportunity and create the life you want to live.

A lot of companies that use Groupons are struggling for customers and need creative ideas. I'll take a look at the Groupon offers for that day and see if I can come up with other ways to promote the company or make their product better.

The day and age of the massive corporations that take care of us from beginning to end are over.

We live in a world where the yellow brick road has many forks and can take us on many incredible journeys.

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. This

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. You

your bosses simply hate you. That's right, they hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of "disdain" in my book.

For now, the Simple Daily Practice means doing ONE thing every day. Try any one of these things each day: A) Sleep eight hours. B) Eat two meals instead of three. C) No TV. D) No junk food. E) No complaining for one whole day. F) No gossip. G) Return an e-mail from five years ago. H) Express thanks to a friend.

In this new era, you have two choices: become a temp staffer (not a horrible choice) or become an artist-entrepreneur. Choose to commoditize your labor or choose yourself to be a creator, an innovator, an artist, an investor, a marketer, and an entrepreneur.

Filtering the people we allow into our lives is probably the most important factor in determining whether we will live a happy life or not. Because if we let the wrong people in, we will be drained, and if we are drained, how can we expect to have abundance or creativity?

Thinking keeps the adventures of life bottled in your head. Action makes you a hero.

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will. There's

The world right now is filled with fog. Honesty is a beacon. Your honesty—saying no to the lying—is what will bring the lost ships home. It's what will bring health, love, and money to you.

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

This is not to say you should eat chocolate all the time. You'll get obese. It's much better to just simply fall in love.

I wrote a blog post about how the book is different from the blog and why I chose to go the self-publishing route. I wrote guests posts for blogs like Techcrunch, which helped immensely and for which I'm very grateful. I used my social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+, Quora, and Pinterest.

It's one thing to know "The Secret" or take whatever life-affirming steps you've read about in order to bring positivity into your life, but it's something else altogether to actually create opportunities for yourself. You're definitely not going to find them reading a book.

Good ideas are a link between the real world and the world of myths and dreams.

Often the best way to make friends and customers for life is to direct them to a better service or product than yours. Be the source of valuable information rather than the source of your "product of the day.

entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.

When you surrender and accept the beautiful stillness around you, when you give up all thoughts of the past, all worries and anxieties of the future, when you surround yourself with similarly positive people, when you tame the mind, when you keep healthy, there is zero chance of burnout.

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.