Quotes from James Altucher

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I want every talk I give to have people laughing at all the right jokes. I want everyone to like me all the time.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

Games are all about taking risks.

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

You can only make money doing what you love.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

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.

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can't change life from the outside. We all know this now.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.

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 mankind.