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If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

James Altucher

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James Altucher
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 23
Blogger
Entrepreneur
Fund Manager
Podcaster
New York City
New York
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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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Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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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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Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.
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