American - Author | January 23, 1968 -
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher
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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.
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If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.
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Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
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Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
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The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.
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The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
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Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
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Games are all about taking risks.
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Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
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Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
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Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.
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