Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing. – James Altucher
I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I want every talk I give to have people laughing at all the right jokes. I want everyone to like me all the time. – James Altucher
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It’s not who we are. – 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
It’s hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes. – James Altucher
In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors. – James Altucher
Don’t buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind. – James Altucher
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing. – James Altucher
I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don’t go up. – James Altucher
You’ll have to hire people to expand your business. But it’s a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire. – James Altucher
Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career. – James Altucher
You can’t make money without selling something real. You can’t make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can’t have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings. – James Altucher
I am a sore loser. It’s not that I’m so competitive with others. But I’m competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before. – 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
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward. – James Altucher
Honesty is about the scars. It’s about the blemishes. But it’s more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It’s about truly helping people. – James Altucher
I’m invested in about 13 private companies. I’ve advised probably another 50 private companies. – James Altucher
Mistakes I’ve made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect. – James Altucher
Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening. – James Altucher
Don’t stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want – freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind. – 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
Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility. – James Altucher
Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth. – James Altucher