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Quotes About Responsibility

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
~ James Altucher
If you don't choose yourself, someone else will and the result won't be pleasant.
~ James Altucher
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.
~ James Altucher
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.
~ James Altucher
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).
~ James Altucher
Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.
~ James Altucher
We can no longer afford to rely on others and repeat the same mistakes from our pasts.
~ James Altucher
you choose your family, your friends, your colleagues, your tribe, your life.
~ James Altucher
entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.
~ James Altucher
You must first be the change you want to see in this World.
~ James Altucher
Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures. One such excuse is, only dishonest people get ahead. This is also a lie. MAKE
~ James Altucher
Mother Theresa said if everyone swept in front of their house then the end result would be a clean world.
~ James Altucher
That's when it clicked. When everything changed. When I realized that nobody else was going to do it for me. If I was going to thrive, to survive, I had to choose myself. In every way. The stakes have risen too high not to.
~ James Altucher
If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing. 
~ James Altucher
We love our excuses. They are just as much our babies as our ideas are.
~ James Altucher
When you don't choose, you excuse.
~ James Altucher
The only thing you have control over is your mindset, your habits, and the choices you make internally about how you're going to deal with a situation.
~ James Altucher
It's not our parents' fault. Or our schools'. Or the government's. Or our friends'. They all have their own issues—no need to blame them. But there's no need to say yes to their stories either. Now is the time for us to build our own stories.
~ James Altucher
Bonuses went up. And a rich person puts the extra dollar in the bank while a poor person pays the rent. So
~ James Altucher
People do what they want until they are injured like a kid putting his fingers on the stove.
~ James Altucher
At any point in your career, you are either a thermostat or a thermometer. You either define the temperature of the people around you and help them achieve their goals and dreams, or you simply do as you're told and be a follower and never inspire. How do you become the thermostat?
~ James Altucher
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
~ James Baldwin
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
~ James Baldwin
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
~ James Baldwin