Quotes from James Altucher

The six people you must find today... Someone to love. Someone to thank. Someone to be grateful for. Someone to forgive Someone to forget Someone to admire.

Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

Don't forget: when you start a website, it's not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

Stick with the people who love you and don't spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.

Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

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

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.

The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it's your rules or the universe's rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.