James Altucher
James Altucher
James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and podcaster. He has founded or cofounded more than 20 companies, including Reset Inc. and StockPickr and says he failed at 17 of them. He has published eleven books, and he is a frequent contributor to publications including The Financial Times, TheStreet.com, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha, Thought Catalog, and The Huffington Post. USA Today named his book Choose Yourself one of the 12 Best Business Books of All Time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth23 January 1968
CountryUnited States of America
James Altucher quotes about
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
Products are valued higher than services.
Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.
Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.
Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.