James Altucher

“Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to maki...”

“You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering...”

“I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.”

“We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.”

“Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.”

“Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.”

“Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.”

“I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.”

“I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.”

“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.”

“I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.”

“The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.”

“I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.”

“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.”

“Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.”

“Games are all about taking risks.”

“If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.”