327 Quotes by James Altucher

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

But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It’s very special to do. It doesn’t happen fast.

The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

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

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

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

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

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.