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People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

James Altucher

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

James Altucher

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

James Altucher

I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.

James Altucher

I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

James Altucher

The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.

James Altucher

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

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Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

James Altucher

Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.

James Altucher

I saw 'Star Wars' when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.

James Altucher

People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.

James Altucher

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.

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Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

James Altucher

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

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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.

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I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

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Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

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I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.

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Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

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Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

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You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.

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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.

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When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.

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I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.

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Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

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Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

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Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

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Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

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America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

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You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

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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.

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I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.

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The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

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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.

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Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

James Altucher

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.

James Altucher