The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth Quotes

“Well, first you have two years of nursery school. Then a year of kindergarten, then you have twelve years of grade school and high school. Then you go to college for four years. Then you might get a master’s degree and become a lawyer or you might go to medical school and become a doctor, then you work for forty years, get promoted if you do a good job, make some money. And then, when you are as old as Grandpa, you can retire. “And during that time,” he continued, “you buy a house, you get married and have kids and send them to college. And then they do the same thing.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Take the word fail out of your vocabulary. Everything we do in life is a success. We breathe, we love, we practice kindness, and we deal with other human beings. We improve. We have experiences. This is magnificent and abundant success. Just even being able to try new things is something to celebrate every day. To smile at another person. To play.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“But the only way to take advantage of that abundance is to learn the skills, the habits, the hacks, the techniques, the tricks, the wonders of how to succeed and accomplish in this new world of innovation and freedom.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Persistence gets you experience. Persistence is a sentence of failures punctuated by the briefest of successes, and eventually those successes will start to propel you toward mastery. Not one success or two. But many, many, many. How do you keep persisting when life is filled with changing careers, relationships, responsibilities, economic crashes, historical upswings, and so many things that can get in your way? There’s no answer. That’s why it’s called persistence. Because no matter where you are, there you are, doing what you always did. Not letting any of the above stop you. Using all of the above in your mastery arsenal to propel you to higher successes (if sometimes also deeper failures) and then even higher successes. It’s painful and brutal and no fun and nobody will ever understand why. And when you achieve success people will act as if it’s the most natural thing in the world to have happened to you.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“There’s a saying in Argentina, “When the CEO is looking, the cow grows fatter.” A business builds fastest when the CEO is looking at it, because”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“One hundred percent of the time there is a good reason and a real reason for everything.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“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

“If you tell someone that getting a job and a salary might not be the best way to make money, in fact it might be the best way to go broke, this doesn’t even compute. The investment bias is too large. “This is my entire life you’re talking about!” This”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Care About Your Health A sick leader is not a great leader. A leader who is spending time with people not good for them is not a good leader. A leader who doesn’t constantly practice creativity is not a good leader. A leader who is not grateful for the abundance already in his or her life will never lead his vision into abundance. He won’t know how.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“On the path to mastery, everything will go wrong.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“They’re empty! All the cubicles are empty. The middle class is being hollowed out.” And I took a closer look. Entire floors were dark. Or there were floors with one or two cubicles occupied, but the rest empty. “It’s all outsourced, or technology has taken over for the paper shufflers,” he explained.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Most people think they need to say “thank you” to the world. But the world is constantly saying “thank you” to you for being alive, for creating new things, new energies, new experiences. Every day give the world at least one more reason to whisper “thank you” to you. If you can hear that whisper, everything else, every gift in life, becomes expected. You earned it. Just take it.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Remember to always tune your inner ear so you can listen for (and separate from each other) both the good reason and the real reason when anyone (including yourself) gives you an excuse.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“If a small town doesn’t have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you’ll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“If I had a to-do list I might get even more stressed not getting to it. The to-do list becomes my master and I become the slave. One of my themes is “less slavery in my life.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“There’s always a gap between “what I have now” and “what I would like.” And that gap is all of your excuses. All it takes to close the gap is to be creative and work your way through the excuses. I repeat: this is all it takes.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“To be happy with your loved ones. To be satisfied for every gift in your life, for every moment, not rushing to the next moment of mastery.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“What can I do right now to move forward, in this second?”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“When I was at my worst, the first thing I had to do was convince myself that I could succeed again.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Prominent behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely has done research that tells us that the peak productivity period in a person’s day is 2-5 hours after they wake up. After that, he says, there are declining returns on the work you put in.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“The typical answer is “I study four hours a day.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Go to the bookstore. Find a topic you would be willing to read five hundred books on.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Next time you are in a negotiation, don’t forget to relax your face.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Say what you want and why. Negotiation equals authenticity.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“I live life as gently and positively as possible—then my negotiations work out, and then my tomorrows and the tomorrows of the people around me are pleasant.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“I don’t care who you are, is smart enough to just dole out advice. Just talk about your own experiences and what you did to help yourself.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then you are worth 100,000 pictures. I compare comedian”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Comedians are the best public speakers and are up against the most brutal audiences, so you must study them. Learn from them.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“A leader listens to the good reason closely to try and figure out what the real reason is, and then comes up with a solution.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth