The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth Quotes

“I have lots of ideas. How do I pick the right one? Execute on as many as possible. The right idea will pick you.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“If you can’t walk away from a negotiation, then you aren’t negotiating. You’re just working out the terms of your slavery.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle. Perfectionism is your brain trying to protect you from harm—from coming up with an idea that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people’s lives for almost no cost. What a great return!”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of humankind.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“I’m going to repeat this: I buy experiences and not things. I don’t like to buy my kids’ gifts. But I’ll take them places and won’t hold back. They will lose and forget the “things” in the long run. But they will never forget the experiences.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“When you get in the door, do not sell your product. People make a decision on your product in five seconds. Sell the dream. Build up images of the dream. Give a taste of what the dream is like. Let it linger.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“you don’t have to worry about “finding” your passion. You’re naturally going to get passionate about what you are good at.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Mastery begins when formal education ends. Find the topic that sets your heart on fire. Then combust.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Tomorrow is 100 percent based on the negotiations you do today.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Persistence creates luck.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“This applies not just to customers but everyone in your life. Everyone. If someone no longer has your best interest at heart, then in your own self-interest you need to back off. Now.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“when you rush to get to a mythical there, one day you will arrive and realize you missed all of the pleasures and mysteries along the way.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Ultimately, mastery is about connecting the dots of many fields.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Most people are not truly talented at anything. However, most people can be pretty good at something.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Everything in life is about having as many options as possible so you can maximize your freedom.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Often the best way to make friends and customers for life is to direct them to a better service or product than yours. Be the source of valuable information rather than the source of your “product of the day.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Should I listen to venture capitalists? Yes, of course. They gave you money. But then don’t do anything they ask you to do.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Get Paid, Get Laid, Lose Weight”—because those are the three things people will pay for.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“When you expose yourself there are many ways for people to attack you. People will stab you and hurt you. But you can’t create art unless you show how unique you are while being inclusive with others who share your problems.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“1. Take out a pad. List everything you enjoyed doing from the ages of six to eighteen, before your life was ruled by college, relationships, crappy jobs, mortgages, kids, responsibilities, self-loathing, etc.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Research your secret options thoroughly. Or else don’t begin the negotiation because you have not prepared properly.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Don’t do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“There’s no way to know in advance if a business idea is a good one. Google started around 1996 but didn’t make a dime of money until around 2001.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“In one column is the list of ideas. In the other column is the list of “First Steps”—only the first step, because you have no idea where that first step will take you.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Be Impeccable with Your Word. This is not the same as radical honesty where you just spew everything out of your mouth that is “honest.” It just means if you say you will do something, do it. If you feel like you have to lie to make excuses, then just don’t say anything at all. Don’t Take Anything Personally. This is valuable advice in this era of Internet trolls and “outrage porn.” Don’t Make Assumptions. If someone is upset at you, for instance, who knows what might be going on in their life that you have no idea about? Also, don’t assume you won’t get a raise, or that someone doesn’t like you. Be curious. Ask questions. Be simple about finding out the truth in a situation before you jump to any assumptions. Always Do Your Best. If you know you aren’t cutting corners and always doing your best, then guaranteed you will do exactly the job you need to do.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“I think bitcoin has about a 1 in 100 chance of being a survivor. So I have 1% of my portfolio in bitcoin.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Right now, get down on your hands and knees and pray to God or Allah or Buddha or whoever if you are an unsophisticated investor.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Good ideas are a link between the real world and the world of myths and dreams.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“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 humankind.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth