Best 98 quotes of James Altucher on MyQuotes

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.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

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

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.

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

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.

Branding jails corporate America but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It’s very special to do. It doesn’t happen fast.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

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

Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

Don’t forget: when you start a website, it’s not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

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.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

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

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

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

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

Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

Games are all about taking risks.

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

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

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 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.

If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.

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

I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism although that's part of it but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.

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

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

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

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

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

Luck is created by the prepared.

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

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.