Top 280 James Altucher Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “When I was running a software company, we always knew it would take one great programmer to solve a hard problem in one night versus 10 mediocre programmers taking a month to screw up a problem even worse.”

— James Altucher

152. “Chocolate releases phenylephylamine, the same hormone that is released when you fall in love.”

— James Altucher

153. “So speak to influence. Don’t speak to call a flower yellow. Speak.”

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

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

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156. “DON’T GOSSIP. One time I trashed an entrepreneur I had invested in to another investor. Later that day I was supposed to have dinner with the first entrepreneur. By that time, just four hours later, he had heard I trashed him. He never trusted me again. People always hear. And if they don’t hear, they feel, because word gets around. And you can’t predict this. And it’s another way of living a double life.”

— James Altucher

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

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158. “Maybe most the important thing I learned was one thing he said to me toward the end: “Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make the thing that excites you come true? Are you fearless?”

— James Altucher

159. “I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I’m almost embarrassed to recount them.”

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160. “People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.”

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161. “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.”

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162. “Finally, I started to care more about getting better than about winning. I started to study my losses. I would take my losses to my instructor and we would go over them. And that’s how I went from expert-level to master-level.”

— James Altucher

163. “HONESTY COMPOUNDS. It compounds exponentially. No matter what happens in your bank account, in your career, in your promotions, in your startups. Honesty compounds exponentially, not over days or weeks, but years and decades. More people trust your word and spread the news that you are a person to be sought out, sought after, given opportunity, given help, or given money. This is what will build your empire.”

— James Altucher

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

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165. “Anger is a form of dishonesty. Nobody is perfect. It’s a lie to expect the people around you to be perfect.”

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166. “This desire will enable you to seize every opportunity and create the life you want to live.”

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167. “Barbara Cortland broke the world record. In 1983, she wrote 23 novels. She was 82 years old. Two novels a month that year. Altogether she wrote 723 published novels. The last she wrote at age 97. When she died a year later, there were 160 unpublished novels still waiting to be published. Did people like her work? Depending on what estimate you use, she sold between 600 million and 2 billion books. Most of her books were romance novels.”

— James Altucher

168. “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.”

— James Altucher

169. “You are the average of the 5 things you are reading today.”

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170. “Turn a few hours each day into a memory instead of a cubicle. Something you can laugh about.”

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171. “You either read the book and use these ideas, or you shouldn’t bother.”

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172. “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.”

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173. “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.”

— James Altucher

174. “When you get in the door, do not sell your product. People make a decision on your product in five seconds. Sell the dream. Build up images of the dream. Give a taste of what the dream is like. Let it linger.”

— James Altucher

175. “There is nobody you need to impress. There is nobody who is judging you. And there will be nobody who can stop you.”

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176. “Thinking keeps the adventures of life bottled in your head. Action makes you a hero.”

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177. “Why buy a home with your own hard-earned money when you can use somebody else’s?”

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178. “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.”

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179. “The best ideas come from collisions between newer and older ideas.”

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180. “Companies simply don’t need the same amount of people anymore to be as productive as they’ve always been. We are moving toward a society without employees. It’s not here yet. But it will be. And that’s okay.”

— James Altucher

181. “My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.”

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182. “If someone insists they need to be in prison even though the door is unlocked, then I am not going to argue. They are free to stay in prison.”

— James Altucher

183. “You can’t hate the people who reject you. You can’t let them get the best of you. Nor can you bless the people who love you. Everyone is acting out of his or her own self-interest.”

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184. “The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.”

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185. “Products are valued higher than services.”

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186. “Everything you learn in school can be outsourced to someone who learned it more cheaply or learned it more recently.”

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187. “With each obstacle, turn it into a moment where you can reflect on the bounty that is in your life.”

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188. “You have to ask good questions. “What can I do to improve?” or “How can I find a better job?” or “How can I be grateful that I lost this job?” Because inside of every problem is the seed of a “difficult gratitude problem” and it always improves your life to solve those problems.”

— James Altucher

189. “Talent had destroyed him. Talent is the tiniest of sparks. A spark lights the fire. But you have to feed the fire more fuel to keep it going. Else it dies out.”

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190. “Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle. Perfectionism is your brain trying to protect you from harm – from coming up with an idea that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain.”

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191. “Noticing your reactions to suffering, anger, pain is the key to well-being.”

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192. “At any point in your career, you are either a thermostat or a thermometer.”

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193. “When you expose yourself there are many ways for people to attack you. People will stab you and hurt you. But you can’t create art unless you show how unique you are while being inclusive with others who share your problems.”

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194. “Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.”

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195. “Quote from the pope: “If we start without confidence, already we have lost half the battle and we bury our talents.”

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196. “Not every failure is an opportunity. But figure it out. Look at the times you failed. How many, in retrospect, were opportunities. About.”

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197. “And it took him about 15 years of writing every day, writing thousands of poems and stories before he finally started making a living as a writer. He wrote his first novel at the age of 49 and it was financially successful. After 25 years of plugging away at it he was finally a successful writer.”

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198. “Be an entrepreneur at work. An “entre-ployee.” Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value – any value – to somebody, anybody, and watch that value compound into a career.”

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199. “There’s no way to know in advance if a business idea is a good one. Google started around 1996 but didn’t make a dime of money until around 2001.”

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200. “But the reality is: reinvention is life. This is the call to adventure that constantly whispers to us. Do we answer it? Do we take the call?”

— James Altucher