James Altucher
James Altucher
James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and podcaster. He has founded or cofounded more than 20 companies, including Reset Inc. and StockPickr and says he failed at 17 of them. He has published eleven books, and he is a frequent contributor to publications including The Financial Times, TheStreet.com, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha, Thought Catalog, and The Huffington Post. USA Today named his book Choose Yourself one of the 12 Best Business Books of All Time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth23 January 1968
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.
In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.
Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.
I saw 'Star Wars' when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.
I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
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.
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.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.