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
The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.
The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.
I saw 'Star Wars' when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.
I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'
Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.
I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.
How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don't have to.
I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.
If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.
In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
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.
Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head