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The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

James Altucher

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James Altucher
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 23
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Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.
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Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.
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I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
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Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head
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The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
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When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.
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Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
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Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction-creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically. Always ask yourself, what can I improve? Who else can I talk to? Where else can I look?
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Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity. It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.
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A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.
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Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.
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The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.
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If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.
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My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
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Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.
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Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
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Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.
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The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
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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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