Quotes from James Altucher

If you can't walk away from a negotiation, then you aren't negotiating. You're just working out the terms of your slavery.

Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'I can't wait to clean out some shit today.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.