James Altucher Quotes Page 3

“Freedom is not depending on the decisions of others for your personal improvement in all areas of life.”

“Get really good at poker and you learn about people, probability, statistics, selling, arbitrage, decision making, money management, emotional control, entertainment, creativity.”

“Goals should change with more knowledge.”

“Google knows nothing. If I go to Google and want to learn about computer programming, Google will say, “I know nothing but here are the ten best places you can go based on my extensive research.”

“Happiness is a bag of chemicals. Some serotonin, some endorphin, some dopamine, reduced cortisol, some oxytocin. You don’t need to be happy every second. That’s just the meat computer in your head. Don’t be a software program. Be the programmer.”

“Happy people
1. Don't compare
2. Don't complain.
3. Avoid toxic people. Meet friends.
4. Laugh more
5. Create
6. Move more
7. Sleep more.
8. Do at least one challenge a day.
9. Rest throughout the day.
10. Probably don't post on social media about what happy people do.”

“Here’s how I like to make a “YES” decision:

Will the “YES” improve my relationships with others?
Will the “YES” improve my mastery of something I love?
Will the “YES” increase my freedom – my ability to make more decisions for myself each day?”

“Heroes talk about ideas, villains talk about other people.”

“Hope is not a good strategy.”

“How you communicatie is how people remember you.”

“Humility is more important than self-esteem. Be humble enough to realize what you are not good at.”

“I dive into a book and it breathes life into me. I’m a vampire who sucks the words out of the author until I have absorbed his or her life.”

“I don’t believe a life has a purpose. Tomorrow I will know more than today. So how can I guess today what sort of purpose I will have tomorrow?”

“I don’t know if money buys happiness. But it’s for sure that poverty doesn’t buy happiness. I’ve never seen a homeless guy skipping down the street with a smile.”

“I learned that people don’t read you because you’re smart. They read you because you’re passionate about a certain topic, and repackage ideas in the way that only you can.”

“I made some very bad decisions. I gave up doing things I love in order to make money doing things I hate.”

“I noticed I was impacting others when I followed good habits. A good habit is the pebble dropped in the ocean that ripples out to every shore.”

“I wish I had learned poker at 17 instead of at 30. Then I wouldn’t have lost all my money at 30. Much safer to lose all your money at 17 before you have two kids and a mortgage.”

“If I’m not the best, I need to get beginner’s mind and learn from mentors.”

“If someone doesn’t like you, then ignore them. This seems obvious but it isn’t. Sometimes when someone doesn’t like me, I waste time trying to get them to like me. This is how you win the loser’s trophy.”

“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 are a threat, then you will be a target.”

“If you are sick in bed, you can’t save the world.”

“If you aren’t the master of your life, then you are the slave of someone else’s.”

“If you can laugh about something, that’s certainly better than not laughing.”

“If you can’t explain what you do, you don’t know what you do.”

“If you could structure your day completely without any financial or emotional worries, what would you do?”

“If you don’t have integrity, then you live a double life. It’s hard enough to live one life.”

“If you don’t make the choices in your own life then someone else will and the results won’t be as good for you.”

“If you ever feel like you have to kiss someone’s ass to get what you want then you are making fear decisions.”