A biography for James Altucherhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Don't forget: when you start a website, it's not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.”
“I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.”
“The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.”
“Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.”
“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.”
“If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.”
“The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.”
“Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.”
“The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.”
“I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'”
“Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.”
“Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.”
“Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity.It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.”
“You can only make money doing what you love.”
“The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.”
“We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.”
“Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.”
“My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.”
“I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.”