The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth Quotes

“Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas and to sell those ideas, the courage to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move on to the next adventure.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“The only retirement plan is to choose yourself—to start a business or a platform or a lifestyle that allows you to put big chunks of money away. Some people can say, “Well, I’m just not an entrepreneur.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“the only way to have success is to build the foundation for it.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Ideas are the currency of life. Not money—because money can run out.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“If anything, diversify not across stocks but across the smart people you follow. That is real diversification instead of “Yahoo Finance diversification.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“So how can one make money in the market? I told you about: #1. Pick some stocks and hold them forever.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“A) Should I Daytrade? Only if you are also willing to take all of your money, rip it into tiny pieces, make cupcakes with one piece of money inside each cupcake and then eat all of the cupcakes. Then you will get sick, and eat all of your money, but it will taste thrilling along the way. Which is what day-trading is.”
― 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. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Uber gave more car rides in San Francisco in October, 2014 then all cab rides combined. Times three.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Have Themes Instead of Goals”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“We love our excuses. They are just as much our babies as our ideas are.”
― 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.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Every master has his Elba. Banished to an island where the life you once knew no longer exists and it seems like there is no way to escape.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“You can’t get good at something if you are working twenty hours a day. In fact, something is very wrong in your life if that is how much you are working at one thing.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“ABS—Always Be Storytelling.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“The definition of “success” for me is: “Is today successful?”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Ideas are the dark matter of the universe. We know it’s there, but only those “in the know” can see them.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“When you don’t choose, you excuse.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“As your idea muscle improves, so will your ability to “fail quickly”—which is a much more crucial skill to hone than executing quickly.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“If someone wrote Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony right now it would be laughed at.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“This is the final bubble. The US government now has to keep printing money to keep things stable. Maybe when the economy booms again they can hold off—but that might be a while.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Mastery begins when formal education ends.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“natural state for human beings. We need to explore. We’re curious. We want to adapt constantly to new environments and use the part of our brain that evolved specifically so we could create new works of art or new productions.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“followed the one percent rule: improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“True wealth occurs when you don’t have to bow down to any gatekeepers—regardless of the money involved. Money is just a by-product. You are out of prison. You are free.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“Every time I refused to believe in and act on the American Dream, I was punished severely. Because everyone else has invested so much of their money and lives in this dream that it freaks them out when other people deviate—let alone take a detour, or be happier.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“This was all part of the American Dream. Get a checkup once a year. Get blood tests. Live your life. But protect yourself. Don’t step out of the box. Take care of yourself. Life is hard. But then life is easy if you follow the rules.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“When you get in the mud with a pig, the pig gets happy and you get dirty.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth