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
Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.
Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.
Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.
Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.
I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.
I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I want every talk I give to have people laughing at all the right jokes. I want everyone to like me all the time.
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 anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.
Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.
We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.
I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.