James Altucher Quotes

When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.

It's very important to enjoy what you're doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

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

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

Luck is created by the prepared.

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.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.

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

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

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.

The six people you must find today... Someone to love. Someone to thank. Someone to be grateful for. Someone to forgive Someone to forget Someone to admire.

Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events that actually make you laugh or fall in love. Only deal with the people who love you back, who are winners and want you to win too.