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I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.James Altucher
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If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.James Altucher
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Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.James Altucher
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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.James Altucher
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The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.James Altucher
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Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.James Altucher
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The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.James Altucher
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And by the way, I know my title said “10 Reasons” and I only listed “6”. I didn’t learn to count in college.James Altucher
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If something is not a "hell, YEAH! ", then it's a "no!James Altucher
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.James Altucher
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Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.James Altucher
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My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.James Altucher
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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.James Altucher
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Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.James Altucher
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The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.James Altucher
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The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.James Altucher
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The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.James Altucher
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Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.James Altucher
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Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.James Altucher
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Don't forget: when you start a website, it's not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.James Altucher
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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.James Altucher
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Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.James Altucher
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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 yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.James Altucher
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Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.James Altucher