Top 96 Quotes by James Altucher

I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

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

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

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.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

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.

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.