327 Quotes by James Altucher

I realized that I was an amateur. I had spent my life pretending to be something I wasn’t.

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 When she died a year later, there were 160 unpublished novels still waiting to be published.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.

Everything you learn in school can be outsourced to someone who learned it more cheaply or learned it more recently.

So speak to influence. Don’t speak to call a flower yellow. Speak.

In order to be creative you have to be healthy physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

Be an entrepreneur at work. An “entre-ployee.” 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 somebody, anybody, and watch that value compound into a career.

Should I listen to venture capitalists? Yes, of course. They gave you money. But then don’t do anything they ask you to do.

At any point in your career, you are either a thermostat or a thermometer.

There’s no way to know in advance if a business idea is a good one. Google started around 1996 but didn’t make a dime of money until around 2001.