James Altucher

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

James Altucher

The entire workforce can be divided into the people who have an evil plan and the people who don’t and that division, I suspect, is very similar to the rich employee mindset, versus the poor employee mindset.

James Altucher

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.

James Altucher

Uber gave more car rides in San Francisco in October, 2014 then all cab rides combined. Times three.

James Altucher

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

James Altucher

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

James Altucher

We should be focusing on building the things that don’t exist.

James Altucher

When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.

James Altucher

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it’s time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

James Altucher

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

James Altucher