James Altucher

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.