Quotes from James Altucher

ZERO sectors in the economy are moving toward more full-time workers.

1) Read two hours a day. 2) Write ten ideas a day. By the end of a year, you will have read for almost one thousand hours and written down 3,600 ideas.

But only you can act to change the world with your ideas. If

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

But the most important thing these rejections gave me was a sense that NEVER AGAIN should I rely on the whims of one person to choose my success or failure in any endeavor.

Defining freedom in different ways (reducing expectations, increasing sources of income so no one source controls you).

Most people obsess on regrets in their past or anxieties in their future. I call this "time-travelling". The past and future don't exist. They are memories and speculation, neither of which you have any control over. You don't need to time travel anymore. You can live right now.

A year or so ago, a guy I didn't like died. We used to argue all the time over our opinions. Now he's dead. I guess I won.

We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

That's when it clicked. When everything changed. When I realized that nobody else was going to do it for me. If I was going to thrive, to survive, I had to choose myself. In every way. The stakes have risen too high not to.

You're always selling: selling your services, selling your customers' services (!) (this is the real, true secret for keeping customers by the way)

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. This is a daily practice.

The day and age of the massive corporations that take care of us from beginning to end are over. But that is exciting news. It means we can choose the life we want for ourselves.

Finally, I started to care more about getting better than about winning. I started to study my losses. I would take my losses to my instructor and we would go over them. And that's how I went from expert-level to master-level.

people are very, very busy walking around you, paying with the currency of unhappiness now in order to reach their glorious futures someday…maybe.

In life, you will always have a third of people who love you, a third who hate you and a third who couldn't care less. - From an interview with Gabrielle Reese

We rob ourselves of our joy and happiness when we stop and check in with what everyone else is thinking and saying about us.

Research your secret options thoroughly. Or else don't begin the negotiation because you have not prepared properly.

When I was running a software company, we always knew it would take one great programmer to solve a hard problem in one night versus 10 mediocre programmers taking a month to screw up a problem even worse.

Honesty is the only way to make money in today's world. Nobody

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

Right now, get down on your hands and knees and pray to God or Allah or Buddha or whoever if you are an unsophisticated investor.

Spiritually we need to recognize the importance of wanting less in our lives, to the point that we want to disappear.

Remember: complaining is draining. So I wanted to make better use of that energy rather than fight it.