Top 280 James Altucher Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

5. “Sometimes it’s better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.”

— James Altucher

6. “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.”

— James Altucher

7. “Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head.”

— James Altucher

8. “Infinite patience gets you immediate results.”

— James Altucher

9. “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.”

— James Altucher

10. “The only way to create value for yourself is to create value for others.”

— James Altucher

11. “Worry will never solve tomorrow’s problems. It will only take energy away from today.”

— James Altucher

12. “It’s much better to work smarter, not harder.”

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

14. “Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.”

— James Altucher

15. “If you can’t walk away from a negotiation, then you aren’t negotiating. You’re just working out the terms of your slavery.”

— James Altucher

16. “No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It’s on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!”

— James Altucher

17. “Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.”

— James Altucher

18. “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.”

— James Altucher

19. “When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.”

— James Altucher

20. “The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.”

— James Altucher

21. “The universe has limitless resources. You have limited resources and limited time. The only way to create abundance is to behave more like the universe.”

— James Altucher

22. “The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.”

— James Altucher

23. “If something is not a “hell, YEAH!“, then it’s a “no!”

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

26. “Persistence creates luck.”

— James Altucher

27. “If you don’t live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.”

— James Altucher

28. “Luck is created by the prepared.”

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

30. “Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.”

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

32. “Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures.”

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33. “One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle.”

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

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

— James Altucher

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

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38. “Everything in life is about having as many options as possible so you can maximize your freedom.”

— James Altucher

39. “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.”

— James Altucher

40. “Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.”

— James Altucher

41. “If you don’t choose yourself, someone else will and the result won’t be pleasant.”

— James Altucher

42. “Every day, be creative. Creativity is a muscle.”

— James Altucher

43. “When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”

— James Altucher

44. “SILENCE Don’t be afraid to go silent. Mirror and then have the confidence to go silent. Nobody wants the negotiation to end. They will keep talking and give you more information.”

— James Altucher

45. “Don’t be sad when you fail and happy when you succeed. Both are going to happen again and again at every new level.”

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46. “It’s how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.”

— James Altucher

47. “I don’t blame them. I never blame anyone but myself. Every second I am manipulated and coerced and beaten down it’s because I’ve allowed it.”

— James Altucher

48. “Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.”

— James Altucher

49. “Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.”

— James Altucher

50. “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.”

— James Altucher