Reinvent Yourself Quotes

“Habits. It’s the 5x5 rule. You are not just the average of the five people around you. You’re the average of the five habits you do, the things you eat, the ideas you have, the content you consume, etc.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Maybe most the important thing I learned was one thing he said to me toward the end: “Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make the thing that excites you come true? Are you fearless?”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Life is a gift. Don’t let your ego get in the way of fully experiencing and appreciating it. When we were kids, we laughed and asked question. As adults, we cry and shout answers. Sometimes it’s good to feel like a kid again, even at age 75.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Noticing your reactions to suffering, anger, pain is the key to well-being.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Talent had destroyed him. Talent is the tiniest of sparks. A spark lights the fire. But you have to feed the fire more fuel to keep it going. Else it dies out.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Despair = Suffering - Meaning.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, but that’s normal, because a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.” The media sells subscriptions. But every day we have a choice. To focus on what is growing in our lives, or the negativity and fear that try to bring us down.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“And it took him about 15 years of writing every day, writing thousands of poems and stories before he finally started making a living as a writer. He wrote his first novel at the age of 49 and it was financially successful. After 25 years of plugging away at it he was finally a successful writer.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“But don’t limit yourself too much either. Always be looking for new opportunities to improve incrementally.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Learning never stops. Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“SELL YOUR CLEVERNESS AND CREATE A SENSE OF AWE”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Improving (or not improving) 1% a day is not even noticeable. That’s why it’s so easy for people to say, “Nothing is happening,” and inadvertently cost their lives 1% a day. Focus on that 1% improvement and everything changes.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“The key to an enriched life is to have a burning desire. Wayne”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Barbara Cortland broke the world record. In 1983, she wrote 23 novels. She was 82 years old. Two novels a month that year. Altogether she wrote 723 published novels. The last she wrote at age 97. When she died a year later, there were 160 unpublished novels still waiting to be published. Did people like her work? Depending on what estimate you use, she sold between 600 million and 2 billion books. Most of her books were romance novels.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Doing my best in any situation is all I can do. If I worry about it while I’m doing it, I won’t do my best.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“As Mac Lethal said to me, “Nobody remembers your bad stuff, just keep working at it and you’ll put out good stuff and that’s what they will see and remember.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“I realized that I was an amateur. I had spent my life pretending to be something I wasn’t.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Reinvention is never over. Today is the first day.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream. Our dad used to say that.” Dreams are in the head. But action creates growth, creates skill, creates excellence.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Quote from the pope: “If we start without confidence, already we have lost half the battle and we bury our talents.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“So speak to influence. Don’t speak to call a flower yellow. Speak”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“We all have things we love to do. And it’s the people around us who love us that help us unlock these dreams. It’s ONLY when you find the people you love that you can create and flourish. Henry Ford was 45 when he started his third car company and created the assembly line. He did this once he eliminated all the people who tried to control him at prior companies. Colonel Sanders was 65 when he started KFC. Laura Ingalls Wilder was 65 when she wrote her first book. The book launched the Little House on the Prairie series. This was after she had been totally wiped out in the Great Depression and left with nothing but she started to surround herself with people who encouraged her and pushed her to pursue writing to make ends meet. 4.“What humanity has collectively learned so far would make up a tiny mark within the circle. Everything we all have to learn in the future would take up the rest of the space. It is a big universe, and we are all learning more about it every day. If you aren’t listening, you are missing out.” The other day someone asked me if I believe in God. There’s no answer. Always have reverence for the infinite things we will never know.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“A) TRY TO GET THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR YOU TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN YOU”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“You have to ask good questions. “What can I do to improve?” or “How can I find a better job?” or “How can I be grateful that I lost this job?” Because inside of every problem is the seed of a “difficult gratitude problem” and it always improves your life to solve those problems.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“SILENCE Don’t be afraid to go silent. Mirror and then have the confidence to go silent. Nobody wants the negotiation to end. They will keep talking and give you more information.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Speak to breathe spirit into an idea, to be enthusiastic, to convey emotion, to influence. This is the only way to have impact with your unique creativity.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“You need to find well-being from within. And here is what it is: FREEDOM RELATIONSHIPS COMPETENCE Increase those every day and you will find well-being. If all you do is the same thing every day, you will never increase those three things in your life.”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself

“Today I will try again. And tomorrow. And then the next day. If I don’t get better, I will at least have fun trying. And what else is there in life but to play as much as possible?”
― James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself