327 Quotes by James Altucher

The muse, or the inspiration, does not just show up, it requires sweat as an offering.

The key to success is to approach everything with humility. To know that there is always something new to learn in this surreal art of being human.

You can find the tools to be happy right now. I still don’t know what my purpose is. I’m afraid I will never know. That makes me very happy. Maybe I can have lots of adventures between today and the day I die. Maybe I can do lots of different things. And if I don’t – if I die even tomorrow – that’s fine also. What does purpose mean when we are dead? We might as well choose to be happy now.

Traveling to the past or the future will not help you now.

You can’t hate the people who reject you. You can’t let them get the best of you. Nor can you bless the people who love you. Everyone is acting out of his or her own self-interest.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

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.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

If you don't give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.