327 Quotes by James Altucher

Mastery begins when formal education ends. Find the topic that sets your heart on fire. Then combust.

Companies simply don’t need the same amount of people anymore to be as productive as they’ve always been. We are moving toward a society without employees. It’s not here yet. But it will be. And that’s okay.

Learning never stops. Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early.

If you want to be successful, you need to study success, not hate it or be envious of it. If you are envious, then you will distance yourself from success and make it that much harder to get there. Never be jealous. Never think someone is “lucky.” Luck is created by the prepared. Never think that someone is undeserving of the money they have. That only puts you one more.

Mistakes I’ve made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

You don’t have to come up with the new, new thing. Just do the old, old thing slightly better than everyone else.

How do you get past this?” Diversification is everything. You get past “this” by having lots of “that”s.

Freedom to help ourselves so that we can help others. Freedom to live the life we choose to lead, instead of having to live the life that has been chosen for us.

Often the best way to make friends and customers for life is to direct them to a better service or product than yours. Be the source of valuable information rather than the source of your “product of the day.