Quotes About Opportunity

You can either take the blue pill (become depressed about an artificial reality that is never going to return) or take the red pill (fully enter the Choose Yourself era and take advantage of its opportunities).

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

Reinvention is never over. Today is the first day.

Choose Yourself! Copyright © 2013 by James Altucher

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.

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

How do you get past this?" Diversification is everything. You get past "this" by having lots of "that"s.

we can choose the life we want for ourselves. You choose that life by doing the best you can right in this moment. Right now. By being bold in this moment. Right now. There is no other moment to wait for.

Everything in life is about having as many options as possible so you can maximize your freedom.

Persistence creates luck.

In every business, I've loved meeting my competitors. The reality is there's no such thing as competition. The world is big enough for two people in the same space.

James Altucher

You no longer have to wait for the gods of corporate America, or universities, or media, or investors, to come down from the clouds and choose you for success. In every single industry, the middleman is being taken out of the picture, causing more disruption in employment but also greater efficiencies and more opportunities for unique ideas to generate real wealth. You can develop those ideas, execute on them, and choose yourself for success.

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

This desire will enable you to seize every opportunity and create the life you want to live.

We live in a world where the yellow brick road has many forks and can take us on many incredible journeys.

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. You

It's one thing to know "The Secret" or take whatever life-affirming steps you've read about in order to bring positivity into your life, but it's something else altogether to actually create opportunities for yourself. You're definitely not going to find them reading a book.

Why buy a home with your own hard-earned money when you can use somebody else's?

Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early.

But the reality is: reinvention is life. This is the call to adventure that constantly whispers to us. Do we answer it? Do we take the call?

The day and age of the massive corporations that take care of us from beginning to end are over. But that is exciting news. It means we can choose the life we want for ourselves.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money.