Quotes from James Altucher

Get Paid, Get Laid, Lose Weight"—because those are the three things people will pay for.

Care About Your Health A sick leader is not a great leader. A leader who is spending time with people not good for them is not a good leader. A leader who doesn't constantly practice creativity is not a good leader. A leader who is not grateful for the abundance already in his or her life will never lead his vision into abundance. He won't know how.

When you don't choose, you excuse.

Ideas are the dark matter of the universe. We know it's there, but only those "in the know" can see them.

You are entitled to say NO to wearing a mask in order to get people to like you. You can trust that the way you are is fine, that your honesty is what attracts others to you, and that your truth is what lights your internal fire.

Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.

People will not remember what you said, they will remember how you made them feel

People rise from unbelievably bleak and desperate ashes to be the one flower in a graveyard to blossom. The sun is always there. But the flower has to be ready to blossom. "That's crazy" is a roadmap. Start with that phrase and circle it. Then draw all the roads that lead out from that spot. They don't all have to end up at the place you expect. Have fun with it. Find different roads and see where they lead.

Comedians are the best public speakers and are up against the most brutal audiences, so you must study them. Learn from them.

In the 1890's horses, carrying people to work, dropped 4.5 million tons of manure on the streets of Manhattan, every year. That was the big environmental problem of the day. "NYC will be buried in horse manure by 1950!" screamed the headlines. It doesn't matter what your opinion about this was. None of the people living in NY solved the problem despite the 1000s of opinions. People with passion for mechanics in Detroit made something called a car. Problem solved.

The only thing you have control over is your mindset, your habits, and the choices you make internally about how you're going to deal with a situation.

Each excuse let me learn about myself, let me discover entire worlds of surprising possibilities. Each one led me to more and more love.

I call this permission networking. My network is not the list of how many people I know. The strength of my network is how well everyone on the list of people I know, knows each other. Most people don't know this important principle.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then you are worth 100,000 pictures. I compare comedian

So here's the solution and it works and can be applied at any age: get good at three, four, or five things. Then find the intersection. Then become the best in the world at the intersection. That's how you can pretend to do your special purpose.

They're empty! All the cubicles are empty. The middle class is being hollowed out." And I took a closer look. Entire floors were dark. Or there were floors with one or two cubicles occupied, but the rest empty. "It's all outsourced, or technology has taken over for the paper shufflers," he explained.

I don't care who you are, is smart enough to just dole out advice. Just talk about your own experiences and what you did to help yourself.

Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide. G)

40% of people who graduate college never read a book again. If you are in the remaining 60% you are 1000× ahead of everyone else.

Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.

You only get better if you lean in to the uncomfortable.

Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible. I asked Nassim Taleb on my podcast what job should one have. He said, "night watchman, because nobody is around to bother you and you can pursue all your dreams on the side.

The outside world is a mirror of what you have on the inside. It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you.

Uber gave more car rides in San Francisco in October, 2014 then all cab rides combined. Times three.