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James Altucher Quotes

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.

James Altucher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 23, 1968

Topics

Yourself You Wealth Creating Way

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.

Jim Foglesong

Mother Music Loved Much Very Were

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

Jocko Willink

Strength Talent People World Enough

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

Mem Fox

Culture Experience Appreciate Result

If I want to make a product that is appealing to consumers, like a piece of clothing or a video game, that's fad driven. Some companies do it, and I don't know how they do it, but it's generally a bad place to invest.

Steve Jurvetson

Game Bad Place Know Want Product

There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

Ryan Adams

Work Ideas Down Write Structure Get

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

Soul Purpose Mind Eye Intellectual

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

Lou Ferrigno

Love King Comedy Doing Years Seven

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Juan Goytisolo

Respect Identity Process Country Own

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

Bob Mayer

Time Writing My Own Hard Turn Own

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

Life Work Future Alone Yourself

I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.

Willie Geist

People Writing Start Letters Email

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

Lei Jun

Pressure Results Hard Were Worked