Quotes from James Altucher

Not every failure is an opportunity. But figure it out. Look at the times you failed. How many, in retrospect, were opportunities. About

Ultimately, mastery is about connecting the dots of many fields.

The NORMAL thing is to be rejected. To get rejected by jobs, your kids, friends, family members, relationships, businesses, publishers, everyone.

So speak to influence. Don't speak to call a flower yellow. Speak

Reinvention is never over. Today is the first day.

Never have your happiness dependent on a yes or no decision from one person.

Mastery begins when formal education ends. Find the topic that sets your heart on fire. Then combust.

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.

Choose Yourself! Copyright © 2013 by James Altucher

when you rush to get to a mythical there, one day you will arrive and realize you missed all of the pleasures and mysteries along the way.

Tomorrow is 100 percent based on the negotiations you do today.

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

Dwelling on negativity won't suddenly have positive results. It only brings more negativity into your head. You can't buy happiness with the currency of unhappiness. The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

This applies not just to customers but everyone in your life. Everyone. If someone no longer has your best interest at heart, then in your own self-interest you need to back off. Now.

You have to ask good questions. "What can I do to improve?" or "How can I find a better job?" or "How can I be grateful that I lost this job?" Because inside of every problem is the seed of a "difficult gratitude problem" and it always improves your life to solve those problems.

Quote from the pope: "If we start without confidence, already we have lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.

The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.

The key to an enriched life is to have a burning desire. Wayne

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream. Our dad used to say that." Dreams are in the head. But action creates growth, creates skill, creates excellence.

In this new era, you have two choices: become a temp staffer (not a horrible choice) or become an artist-entrepreneur.

You need to find well-being from within. And here is what it is: FREEDOM RELATIONSHIPS COMPETENCE Increase those every day and you will find well-being. If all you do is the same thing every day, you will never increase those three things in your life.

A) TRY TO GET THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR YOU TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN YOU

The rise of corporatism (as opposed to capitalism) forced people into cubicles instead of out into the world, exploring and inventing and manifesting. The ethic of the Choose Yourself era is to not depend on those stifling trends that are defeating you. Instead, build your own platform, have faith and confidence in yourself instead of a jury-rigged system, and define success by your own terms.