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
Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.
I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.
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.
Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
It's very important to enjoy what you're doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.
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 had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.
It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.
The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.
Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
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.
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.