Quotes from James Altucher

Talent had destroyed him. Talent is the tiniest of sparks. A spark lights the fire. But you have to feed the fire more fuel to keep it going. Else it dies out.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

If you don't choose yourself, someone else will and the result won't be pleasant.

symbolically, nobody can deliver wisdom to you except you. The being who finds peace inside himself needs nobody to tell him what to do, nobody to project their own fantasies onto him.

This is about a new phase in history where art, science, business, and spirit will join together, both externally and internally, in the pursuit of true wealth. It's a phase where ideas are more important than people

did that attitude work? Of course not.

NEGOTIATION IS WORTHLESS. SALES ARE EVERYTHING.

When you're a kid, everything has a question mark at the end of it. Only later do they turn into periods. Or even exclamation points. "Will I get over this?" becomes "It's too late." Becomes "I can't get over this!

you don't have to worry about "finding" your passion. You're naturally going to get passionate about what you are good at.

I realized that I was an amateur. I had spent my life pretending to be something I wasn't.

You've done all you can do. All that is within your power, your control. Now, give up the results. The right thing will happen.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic. How

The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will.

You will be the beacon that will enhance the lives of everyone around you and, in doing so, trigger the actual law of nature that says when you enhance everyone around you, you can't help but enhance yourself.

And it took him about 15 years of writing every day, writing thousands of poems and stories before he finally started making a living as a writer. He wrote his first novel at the age of 49 and it was financially successful. After 25 years of plugging away at it he was finally a successful writer.

If someone insists they need to be in prison even though the door is unlocked, then I am not going to argue. They are free to stay in prison.

don't focus on those things in the material world that you cannot control or possibly ever change, when you can focus on inner health, on your inner world, on the things that matter.

Improving (or not improving) 1% a day is not even noticeable. That's why it's so easy for people to say, "Nothing is happening," and inadvertently cost their lives 1% a day. Focus on that 1% improvement and everything changes.

SELL YOUR CLEVERNESS AND CREATE A SENSE OF AWE

When you get in the door, do not sell your product. People make a decision on your product in five seconds. Sell the dream. Build up images of the dream. Give a taste of what the dream is like. Let it linger.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

Maybe most the important thing I learned was one thing he said to me toward the end: "Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make the thing that excites you come true? Are you fearless?

I don't blame them. I never blame anyone but myself. Every second I am manipulated and coerced and beaten down it's because I've allowed it.