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
It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.
Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.
Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
Don't forget: when you start a website, it's not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.
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.
I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.
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.
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
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.
Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.
Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.