Quotes from James Altucher

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!

The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.

Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.

People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

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.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.

Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism although that's part of it but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.

If something is not a "hell, YEAH!", then it's a "no!

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.