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James Altucher Quotes

Total quotes: 38
“We’re just a tiny spark of light between two darknesses,” I said. “And my spark can now start to flicker. I feel a sense of relief at this.”
— James Altucher, James Altucher, Thank God At Least Half My Life Is Over. Good Riddance.
Tagged: Philosophy
“I start off stupid.

I learn.

I do. The only way to get better is to DO. Not think or write or watch. DO.”
— James Altucher, The Power Of Stupidity: How I Dumbed My Way Out Of Failure
Tagged: stupidity, Learning, Doing
“Own what you do. I don’t mean legally or financially (although that could be fine if you get it). But own your decisions. Make your choices. Once you have to ask for permission, someone else has the keys to your freedom.”
— James Altucher, Jocko Willink – What I Learned About Being A Warrior
Tagged: Decisions, Choices, Freedom
“I try to do this instead: live life like it’s everyone else’s last day.
Then you learn to treat everyone with the highest respect. They are dying tomorrow!”
— James Altucher, 10 Things I Do To Guarantee Failure For Myself And Others
Tagged: Life, Living, Treat Others as You Want To Be Treated, Respect
“So the odds are on my side. I will live forever. Unless something weird happens. Like dying.”
— James Altucher, 10 Things I Do To Guarantee Failure For Myself And Others
Tagged: Life, Living, Forever, Dying, Death, Absurd
“The simple mantra, ‘I know nothing’ has helped me so many times in the past seven years.

I owe any success to those simple three words: I. Know. Nothing.”
— James Altucher, The Power Of Stupidity: How I Dumbed My Way Out Of Failure
Tagged: Mantra, meditation, Humility, Knowledge
“The gift of truth is rare. People will treasure it and try to return that gift.”
— James Altucher, 10 Things I Do To Guarantee Failure For Myself And Others
Tagged: Gift, Truth, Treasure
“If you just listen, you never learn. If you just learn, you never do. And the way to DO is to experiment and see what sets your heart on fire.”
— James Altucher, 10 Things I Do To Guarantee Failure For Myself And Others
Tagged: Listening, Learning, Doing, Experimenting, Living
“Asking for help is difficult. It involves being vulnerable. But learning is not about things being easy. It’s about conquering every discomfort.”
— James Altucher, Jocko Willink – What I Learned About Being A Warrior
Tagged: Asking For Help, Vulnerable, Learning, Comfort
“The key to success is not to think positive all the time. Not to be optimistic about everything.”
— James Altucher, Jocko Willink – What I Learned About Being A Warrior
Tagged: Success, Optimism
“Life is an experiment. That’s the beauty of all of this. We’re all scientists in this giant laboratory.”
— James Altucher, 10 Things I Do To Guarantee Failure For Myself And Others
Tagged: Life, experiment, Beauty Of Life, Scientists
“Our life is a list of the experiments we try, the discoveries we make, the failures we encounter along the way to greater successes and rewards.”
— James Altucher, 10 Things I Do To Guarantee Failure For Myself And Others
Tagged: Life, Experiments, Failures, Success, Discoveries
“The one mantra if you want to get good at something is not: Learn. Or read. Or study. Or dream.

It’s do. Every day.”
— James Altucher, Jocko Willink – What I Learned About Being A Warrior
Tagged: Mantra, Doing, Habit, Learning, Reading, studying, Dreaming
“Terror is not fun. It is pain. But when you push through it, you’re in a new world. A world you never explored before. It’s a mystery, a maze, a game, a play.”
— James Altucher, The Discomfort Zone
Tagged: Terror, Pain, Comfort Zone
“'Success' is a weird word. It’s one of those things that everyone wants but nobody knows what it means.”
— James Altucher, What's The Relationship Between Relationship Success And Career Success?
Tagged: Success
“I wanted to be dead. I wanted the worry in my stomach to just stop for one, please ONE, second. That worry ate my stomach alive.”
— James Altucher, How I’ve Lived Off My Ideas(Sort Of) For 20 Years
Tagged: Thoughts, worries, Death
“The body and mind always want to explore a frontier.

It cost me nothing to explore.”
— James Altucher, I Wanted To Get Better(So This Is What I Did)
Tagged: Body, Mind, Exploring
“Life is short. You can’t let anyone abuse you, you can’t let anyone be crazy on you.”
— James Altucher, How To Deal With Angry People
Tagged: Life, Abuse, crazy
“Happiness is not about politics. Or about success. Or about improving my life.

Happiness is about you and me and what we will do together.”
— James Altucher, The Most Important Factor In Being Happy
Tagged: Happiness, Love
“Discipline eliminates complexity. Everyday, you make micro and macro decisions.
If you reduce the number of decisions you need to make daily, you have more freedom.”
— James Altucher, Jocko Willink – What I Learned About Being A Warrior
Tagged: Discipline, Decisions, Freedom
“For a brief moment, despite the sea of fire she and I traveled through and ultimately died in, we were together again. And that made me happy.”
— James Altucher, The Most Important Factor In Being Happy
Tagged: Love, Happiness
“I came from nothing. I was going back to nothing. I was going back to worse than nothing, I thought.”
— James Altucher, When You’re Feeling Lost
Tagged: Nothingness, worst
“Happiness and well-being are also outside of the comfort zone. You have to travel into your discomfort to find the silver linings hidden. The mystery.”
— James Altucher, The Discomfort Zone
Tagged: Happiness, Comfort Zone, silver lining, Mystery
“We’re all just trying to survive. We all have our insecurities. We can sink in them or try very hard to rise above them.”
— James Altucher, The Most Important Factor In Being Happy
Tagged: Survival, Insecurities, Rising Up
“But always choose who you deal with. Who you give power to. This is the way of reclaiming power over your own life.”
— James Altucher, When You’re Feeling Lost
Tagged: Choices, Path, Power, Life
“But compassion is a muscle. And it’s important to exercise. And the best way to change someone’s life is when they really need your help and you have the ability to give it.”
— James Altucher, How To Deal With Angry People
Tagged: Compassion, Changing Lives, Helping Others, Helping People
“I always think I live a life where I do what I choose. I find the uncertainty in life breeds anxiety and seeks out worry in the brain.”
— James Altucher, The Most Important Choice You Can Make
Tagged: Life, Uncertainty, Choices, Anxiety
“Sometimes to survive the biggest pains on the way up, you have to fly without a safety net. You have to fall.”
— James Altucher, Jim Norton — Dropout And Laugh(A Comedian’s Journey)
Tagged: Surviving Pain, Pain, Failing
“But integrity is a dream we can all aspire to. And it’s a nice intersection to share with someone.”
— James Altucher, Jocko Willink – What I Learned About Being A Warrior
Tagged: Integrity, Dream
“Mastery has a language to it. Speak that language and you will learn how to master anything you have some degree of talent in.”
— James Altucher, The Ultimate Guide To Achieving Peak Performance In Life
Tagged: Mastery, Language, Talent, Learning
“If you aren’t weird enough to find a way to celebrate today, then it will be harder for you to celebrate tomorrow.”
— James Altucher, When The Going Gets Weird, The Weird Gets Going
Tagged: Weird, Celebrating
“Maybe the only thing I know in life: the more I help people, the more I have to give. It’s like a barrel of infinite water.”
— James Altucher, The Most Important Factor In Being Happy
Tagged: Helping People, Helping Others, Giving, Life
“Some people might not be happy but are good.”
— James Altucher, How To Deal With Angry People
Tagged: Sad People, Good People, Sadness
“My own dreams are deep inside, my secret wishes since I was a little boy. I can tell when I am moving in the right direction.
I get a feeling in my upper chest. A warmth and excitement.”
— James Altucher, 10 Things I Do To Guarantee Failure For Myself And Others
Tagged: Dreams, Directions, Life, Living
“I don’t need to make a dime off of this book.”
— James Altucher, Choose Yourself!
Tagged: first lines of books, Making Money, Do Book Make Money?
“One of the best days of my life was the day I took the elevator down to freedom. It was the middle of the day. I walked out. No boxes. No handshakes. I left and played chess in Union Square. The same place I got my first client after starting my own company.”
— James Altucher, Jocko Willink – What I Learned About Being A Warrior
Tagged: Freedom, Quitting Your Job, Starting Your Own Business
“Comedy is about observing the hidden truths in life that everyone knows but nobody has ever quite articulated. And standup is about how to articulate that truth in such a way that people feel momentarily unsafe and confused (the setup), and relieved (the punchline).”
— James Altucher, Jim Norton — Dropout And Laugh(A Comedian’s Journey)
Tagged: comedy, Standup, Truth, Life
“We’re going to die. There’s nothing to stop it. There’s no protecting future generations. Fleeing to Mars won’t help. Science won’t stop Yellowstone.”
— James Altucher, What Are Some Of The Dark Lessons That Life Showed You?
Tagged: Dying, Death, End point
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