James Altucher Quotes - Page 4

Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.

You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

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.

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity. It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.

The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

Branding jails corporate America but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.