James Altucher

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

James Altucher

Never have your happiness dependent on a yes or no decision from one person.

James Altucher

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

James Altucher

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.

James Altucher

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

James Altucher

So, if a company is buying lots of smaller companies, they need a vision that explains why bigger is better.

James Altucher

Supply and demand. If you reduce the supply of you by saying no, then the demand for you goes up and you make more money-and have more fun.

James Altucher

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

James Altucher

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

James Altucher

The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

James Altucher