Quotes from James Altucher

I keep telling my kids, if they want to learn to sing, or to tap dance, or draw manga comics, or to do anything, learn everything you can about all the masters in your field over the past 100 years.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

There's always a gap between "what I have now" and "what I would like." And that gap is all of your excuses. All it takes to close the gap is to be creative and work your way through the excuses. I repeat: this is all it takes.

Ideas are the currency of life. Not money—because money can run out.

we beat ourselves up in ways in which we would never beat up someone we loved.

Remember to always tune your inner ear so you can listen for (and separate from each other) both the good reason and the real reason when anyone (including yourself) gives you an excuse.

If a small town doesn't have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you'll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.

The definition of "success" for me is: "Is today successful?

The problem is: income inequality is getting greater. There is no denying that. But this is not a distinction between Owner / Employee. This is a distinction between those with the Rich Employee mindset versus those with the Poor Employee mindset.

Panic freezes you. Nobody is going to go into your head and take the panic away. But action leaks the panic out of your head.

It's not about yes or no. It's about two people falling in love.

This is the final bubble. The US government now has to keep printing money to keep things stable. Maybe when the economy booms again they can hold off—but that might be a while.

And by the way, I know my title said "10 Reasons" and I only listed "6". I didn't learn to count in college.

Bonuses went up. And a rich person puts the extra dollar in the bank while a poor person pays the rent. So

In chess there's a saying: "Only the good players are lucky.

ABS—Always Be Storytelling.

Most people think they need to say "thank you" to the world. But the world is constantly saying "thank you" to you for being alive, for creating new things, new energies, new experiences. Every day give the world at least one more reason to whisper "thank you" to you. If you can hear that whisper, everything else, every gift in life, becomes expected. You earned it. Just take it.

If you start hanging around with people who don't love and support you, then you'll die.

True wealth occurs when you don't have to bow down to any gatekeepers—regardless of the money involved. Money is just a by-product. You are out of prison. You are free.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

I think they're even married now. Or dead. Who knows?

Everyone around you needs to ultimately become better than you. That's how you lead.

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Engage with nobody who is bad to you. When you get in the mud with a pig, the pig gets happy and you get dirty.