James Altucher Quotes Page 4

“If you have to do something that you know will make your life better, stop with the excuses.”

“If you outsource your self-esteem, you’ll never be happy.”

“If you stick to anything for a year, you’ll become better than 99% of people in the world at it.”

“If you want your life to change, do something different, something unexpected, take a wrong turn off a dirt road.”

“If you’re forced to read things that are boring to you, you won’t be able to narrow in on the things that really excite you.”

“It’s almost impossible to get rich on income.”

“It’s good to let the brain wander. Creativity moves around a lot inside the brain. You have to let your brain wander in order to find out where creativity is today.”

“It’s taken me a long time to learn to surround myself with the best possible people. The people that inspire me. The people that I love. The people that change me for the better.”

“Just make small incremental moves towards the life you want to live.”

“Just own stocks in an industry that is growing faster than inflation.”

“Learn to connect to people. Learn to be vulnerable with people. Vulnerability builds connections.”

“Learn to discover other people’s agendas. They will never care about your agenda until you study theirs.”

“Life does not promise you stability, it promises you a laboratory. In that laboratory you can experiment.”

“Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.”

“Listen to the lyrics of early 70s rock songs. All of the wisdom of the world is there.”

“Live life as if today might be your last day. ”

“Make decisions from core values:

Will this decision:
Improve my relationships with people?
Improve my mastery over things I love?
Improve my freedom? The number of decisions I make per day that are mine and nobody else’s.”

“Many people think net worth leads to more self-worth. I know for me I was dead broke when I finally realized that self-worth leads to more net worth.”

“Many people, and I was one of them, are on the treadmill of school, college, job, job, job, retirement, death.”

“Mastering yourself is the only way to help be the pebble that drops in the ocean and ripples its effects to all shores.”

“Mistakes are the spell books of success. Study them hard.”

“Money buys you more opportunities.”

“Money doesn’t buy happiness but it certainly solves your money problems.”

“Money is a byproduct of being a good, competent, creative, healthy person.”

“Money is about arbitrage. Seeing value where other people don’t.”

“Most people don’t read. Those people are losers. If you read one good thing a day then in a few years you’ll know thousands more things than anyone else.”

“Never focus on outcome, just process. Process is pleasure. Process is today and in the moment. Outcome is always a fantasy in the future.”

“Never read news. The news is written by bad writers who are just looking for page views and are willing to lie or defame to get them. Also the news is out of date one day later.”

“Nine to five is a myth. It doesn’t start at 9. It doesn’t end at 5.”

“No excuses. Blaming is draining. Complaining is draining. Explaining is draining. We don’t have enough inner plumbing for all that draining.”