Quotes from James Altucher

master the form you want to operate in, get experience, be willing to be imperfect, and then develop the confidence to play within that form, to develop your own style.

Why buy a home with your own hard-earned money when you can use somebody else's?

So the question is not, when is an idea too big? It's how do I make all ideas smaller and achievable? You do this by developing the idea muscle:

Do you really think you are going to change anyone's mind?

idea! Maybe your dreams are nightmares. Make a list of the things you are doing where you can avoid your worst

The rise of corporatism (as opposed to capitalism) forced people into cubicles instead of out into the world, exploring and inventing and manifesting.

Kamal's excellent book close this chapter: If a painful memory arises, don't fight it or try to push it away—you're in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself. Feel it. If you have to fake it, fine. It'll become real eventually. Feel the love for yourself as the memory ebbs and flows. That will take the power away.

The key to success is to approach everything with humility. To know that there is always something new to learn in this surreal art of being human.

Take a job working for the rich shareholders of massive corporations so you can get paid less while increasing supply for the few who can have access to expensive cancer drugs, driverless cars, robots, etc. B)

I hate to sound like a weirdo Buddhist, but 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. Haters don't fit anywhere into that. Don't devote any mental space to them." The

You are entitled to say NO to wearing a mask in order to get people to like you.

If I had only focused on big successes," he said, "then I would be disappointed most of the time. You have to focus on the small successes and make sure to celebrate them.

There are lots of variations on the path to self-publishing; this is the one Kamal and I have both used. WRITE THE BOOK.

Keep failing until you accidentally no longer fail.

don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want—freedom from financial worry. 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.

Today I will try again. And tomorrow. And then the next day. If I don't get better, I will at least have fun trying. And what else is there in life but to play as much as possible?

Don't be sad when you fail and happy when you succeed. Both are going to happen again and again at every new level.

At any point in your career, you are either a thermostat or a thermometer.

But once you divide the world into categories, into an "us" versus "them," then you immediately become a "them" and lose touch with who you really are. And

there is always something new to learn in this surreal art of being human.

30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won't care.

Never underestimate the power of a long, protracted silence." Out

In some cultures, like Buddhism, you want things in your life to disappear, to reduce your needs and desires

If you lower your expectations, for instance, your expectations are easy to exceed.