Quotes from James Altucher

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money. Money gets depleted until you go broke. But good ideas buy you good experiences, buy you better ideas, buy you better experiences, buy you more time, save your life.

Always make sure your list is bigger than theirs so you can give up the nickels in exchange for the dimes.

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A leader listens to the good reason closely to try and figure out what the real reason is, and then comes up with a solution.

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

improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.

We can feed ourselves but ultimately life is better when we feed each other.

Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction - creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically.

Always over-promise and over-deliver. Sometimes people hate that. They want to under promise and over deliver. Don't do that

You are the alchemist of your life.

Nothing you ever thought of before amounted to anything – that's why you are exactly where you are at that moment of hitting bottom.

Storytelling has worked for 5000 years. It's not going to stop now just because we have blogs and tweets.

Leadership doesn't ask the question "How good can I get? How far can I get?" Leadership asks the question "How far can the people around me get?

But deep inside you there is a creative force that desperately wants you to succeed, wants you to make a lot of money, wants you to fall in love and be happy, wants you to do these things not so you can live in exotic mansions and travel the world fifty times over, but so that you are free from the constraints of a normal job and can pursue the real exploration of what and where is the happiness around you.

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. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.

First off, people say "it doesn't hurt to ask" precisely when it does hurt to ask.

In other words, just do it. Leave behind everyone else's definitions or else you will drown in them. Why listen to him? He made 50,000 works of art in his life. On average two per day.

This was all part of the American Dream. Get a checkup once a year. Get blood tests. Live your life. But protect yourself. Don't step out of the box. Take care of yourself. Life is hard. But then life is easy if you follow the rules.

But this is also the vortex on which we have the option to turn pro. It is where we own our idea machine power.

The entire workforce can be divided into the people who have an evil plan and the people who don't and that division, I suspect, is very similar to the rich employee mindset, versus the poor employee mindset.

Leadership is not about achieving your dream. It's about helping everyone else achieve their dreams.

When an idea has electricity in it you will have no choice but to move into action. And you will love it because it will set your heart on fire.

Even if you aren't an expert, give yourself permission to be a producer. Produce!

Every time I refused to believe in and act on the American Dream, I was punished severely. Because everyone else has invested so much of their money and lives in this dream that it freaks them out when other people deviate—let alone take a detour, or be happier.