Quotes from James Altucher

The only retirement plan is to choose yourself—to start a business or a platform or a lifestyle that allows you to put big chunks of money away. Some people can say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur.

The real way to get wealth is to find a customer and perform a service for that customer. Then repeat.

Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave.

Next time you are in a negotiation, don't forget to relax your face.

When I was at my worst, the first thing I had to do was convince myself that I could succeed again.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas and to sell those ideas, the courage to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move on to the next adventure.

In removing yourself temporarily from the situation, you reduce the supply of yourself. In basic economics, value is a function of supply and demand. When supply goes down, value goes up.

It might indicate what businesses to start. And for every one trend there are many different businesses you can start.

Often people want answers right now! When they tell you to jump, they want you to ask, "How high?" But you have the right to think things over. The right to delay. The right to say, "Okay, give me some time to see how I feel about it." The right to get to know the people who enter your life in either business or relationships and see if they are the right fit.

people perceive you as stupid when you do this. Just keep quiet when someone is talking.

Supply and demand. If you reduce the supply of you by saying no, then the demand for you goes up and you make more money—and have more fun.

when they're done speaking, wait for two seconds before responding.

It's not our parents' fault. Or our schools'. Or the government's. Or our friends'. They all have their own issues—no need to blame them. But there's no need to say yes to their stories either. Now is the time for us to build our own stories.

If I had a to-do list I might get even more stressed not getting to it. The to-do list becomes my master and I become the slave. One of my themes is "less slavery in my life.

Often the best way to make friends and customers for life is to direct them to a better service or product than yours.

What is enough? It's not a number.

What can I do right now to move forward, in this second?

if you can't find the humor in everything around you, then eventually you find out too late that the joke is on you.

There's a saying in Argentina, "When the CEO is looking, the cow grows fatter." A business builds fastest when the CEO is looking at it, because

To be happy with your loved ones. To be satisfied for every gift in your life, for every moment, not rushing to the next moment of mastery.

Is this just a dream? Can life be lived so large? Have I been able to live life so large? To live to my fullest potential?

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

stand straight and act like someone who deserves to be listened to).

followed the one percent rule: improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.