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
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.
I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
When I give away a book for free, it gets my name out there. That has lifelong value for me that goes way beyond the few dollars I could maybe charge.
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.
I saw 'Star Wars' when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.
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.
The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.
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.
Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes
Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.
Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.
Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.