A biography for James Altucherhasn’t been written yet.
“Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.”
“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.”
“Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.”
“The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.”
“How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don't have to.”
“Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.”
“Somebody has to be on stage, and some people have to be in the audience. That's the only difference. Don't put any thought as to why you are on the stage or how you need to be 'better' than the people in the audience. You aren't better. You're simply the speaker.”
“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.”
“The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.”
“A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.”
“Products are valued higher than services.”
“Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.”
“In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.”
“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.”
“If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.”
“I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.”
“If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.”