James Altucher Quotes Page 6

“Stand next to the smartest person in the room.”

“Success means viewing problems as opportunities for solutions.”

“Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.”

“Take time to see the greater universe. Our problems are just the eyeblinks of a quantum god.”

“Take what everyone thinks and explore the opposite.”

“The absolute best, surefire way to make a good living is to help someone else make a good living.”

“The average child laughs 300 times a day.
The average adult… 5 times a day.”

“The best entrepreneurs are not risk-takers. They spend every day reducing risk. They have an “evil plan." Every day they work a little on that evil plan. The evil plan compounds. Then they make the jump.”

“The best investment is in yourself... But diversify.”

“The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.”

“The comfort zone is a real place. And it gets smaller every day. You have to push at its borders for it to get bigger.”

“The definition of success for me is: “Is today successful?”

“The families we are born into are often not the families we die with.”

“The need for approval is just a dopamine hit. Dopamine is the same neurochemical that spikes when you take cocaine. Need for validation is no better than a coke habit and I’ve seen it ruin careers and friendships.”

“The only things that really matter in this world are the relationships you have with the people you love, and the meaningful things that you do.”

“The only things you ever learn in life are the things you are enthusiastic about.”

“The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.”

“The only way to create value for yourself is to create value for others.”

“The people who are enthusiastic will beat the people who don’t care.”

“The rise of corporatism (as opposed to capitalism) forced people into cubicles instead of out into the world, exploring and inventing and manifesting.”

“The subway is the underground animal kingdom. A shadow of what hell might be like. Filled with mysterious strangers all inches from dangerous intimacy.”

“There's no right way to do the wrong thing and there's no wrong way to do the right thing.”

“There’s always something to learn when I say, "It’s my fault.”

“There’s seven billion people on the planet. Why should people listen to you?”

“This is what a job really is: You are being paid money in exchange for your unhappiness.”

“Three generations from now nobody will even remember me.”

“Time can’t be replaced.”

“To make money, to achieve success, to impact others, you have to have a vision of the world that is uniquely yours. Your voice.”

“Treat everyone the way you would treat a daughter. Love their faults and flaws. Don’t try and change them. Be sensitive to their sadness. Listen to them. Hold them if they need it. Don’t control them. They want to be happy. Just like you.”

“Trust one eye more than two ears.”