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For some reason, I've turned myself inside out and all my guts have spilled onto my blog. Check me out at . NM in chess.

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@jaltucher
James Altucher
4 years
Most people angry about opening the economy have one thing in common: they get a paycheck. They are rich, or work in media, or work in academia, etc. The 20+ million workers who are struggling without paychecks know that the economy and a healthy society are the same.
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4 years
The virus is enhancing what is already inside each person: - Jerks are turning into bigger jerks. - Compassionate people are becoming more compassionate. You get to decide in this very difficult time who you really are. Hopefully, we all make the right decision.
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James Altucher
4 years
We live in a world where you have a podcast?
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We live in a world WHERE JOE ROGAN’s PODCAST HAS TRIPLE THE LISTENERS AS MINE!! Dear god.
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James Altucher
2 years
OpenTable reservations this month, compared with same day in 2019
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James Altucher
4 years
Columbia Univ just announced next semester will be 100% remote (reversing their prior decision). They are going to REFUND a massive 10% on tuition. 2 weeks before school starts. Colleges are full-force admitting they are scams. Plus this will means 1000s more apt vacancies in NYC
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James Altucher
5 years
From 1953. I found a time traveler.
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James Altucher
4 years
Notre Dame suspends classes after 146 students come down with Covid. So...get students, collect all tuitions, get the students sick (100% asymptomatic) and THEN send them all home to infect elder relatives. COLLEGE!
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James Altucher
4 years
Hypocrisy #1 : Washington Post calling for Washington & Lee Univ to change name because of Washington but neglect to call for "Washington Post" to change name. #2 : Rep.Omar says "dismantle political & economic system" day after her campaign paid her husband $878,000 #Simulation
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4 years
Wow, so last night a 16 year old was shot and killed in the CHAZ/CHOP region and a 14 year old was shot. Nothing on @CNN about it. Nothing from the Seattle mayor. This is not political. I feel bad for the parents of these children. Why doesn't news report about this?
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James Altucher
4 years
So disappointed in @HBO . For decades the leader of pushing the envelope in edgy content. Now, pulling "South Park" episodes that mention Mohammed. South Park makes fun of everything all the time for 25 years. HBO stabs their own brand in the heart. HBO R.I.P.
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James Altucher
2 years
Here's my prediction for the future of @elonmusk twitter and everything app. You hear it here first! #twitter #ElonMusk #crypto #everythingapp #payments #platform
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James Altucher
4 years
Important thing to remember. Every pandemic ends in about three months. "Peak pandemic" at 1.5 months (early to Mid-April). This will end, like every disease, pandemic, catastrophe, war, and we will move on. Finances will bounce back. Life goes on.
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James Altucher
5 years
Persistence + Love = Success Happiness = Reality / Expectations Anger = Fear + Denial 1% improvement/day = 3700% / year Well-Being = Community + Mastery + Freedom Creativity = Who are you + Why are you + Why now Sales = New + Big + Easy + Safe
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James Altucher
4 years
10 Lessons from Kanye. President Kanye. Why not? Every step of his career people laughed "you can't be a rapper", "you can't be in fashion!", etc. Last week Kanye announced a deal with "The Gap" and their stock went up over $1 billion in seconds. (1/x) #Yeezy2020
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James Altucher
2 years
one of the toughest chess problems. you only need to see one move ahead. White to move and checkmate in one. there IS a solution
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James Altucher
4 years
The Wisconsin and NC court decisions. Musk's defiance. Beaches crowded, etc. show one thing: the government is not stronger than the people. The lockdown is basically over because people want to go back to work, not because the govt gave us "permission". Democracy works.
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4 years
Let's see: six shootings, two teenage deaths, and @MayorJenny still says "it's an arts festival". THEN, the CHAZ threatens to take over her 5,000 sq ft house worth $7.6 million after her new addition. A DAY LATER, she brings in the police, "end the chaos!" #Leadership #Comedy
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James Altucher
4 years
Make Earth Great Again #ThugQuarantine
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James Altucher
5 years
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet to Starting and Running A Business (and treat your career as a business): the next 50-100 tweets by me but all on this thread. It took me about 20 businesses plus another 50 investments to START to get this right. So...here goes....
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James Altucher
2 years
Black to move. Mate in 2
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James Altucher
2 years
I'm getting the chance to run my own book store for the entire month of September in the middle of London. I would pick 100% of the books in the store that month. Plus put chess tables outside and hang out all day. Should I do it? Would you visit me? Here's the store:
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James Altucher
4 years
Couples that were going to get divorced in ten years, will get divorced next month Colleges will fall apart now instead of 5 years from now. States will sell highways to pay debt now instead of 5 yrs Every co will go "remote". Automation: NOW, instead of 5 years. & much more
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Cernovich
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“Everything that was going to take 10 years to happen will happen in 1 year. Coronavirus was the ultimate acceleration.” - @jaltucher
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James Altucher
4 years
I'm aggressively Alt-Center. Which means alt-left thinks I'm a racist fascist and alt-right thinks I'm a libtard snowflake and my kids want me to pay higher taxes and give them more rent money. And both sides vote-shame me when I say I'm not going to vote.
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James Altucher
4 years
Nobody will ever thank you for proving them wrong.
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James Altucher
4 years
Prediction: Biden is not going to get the Democratic nomination despite having zero opponents right now.
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James Altucher
4 years
The new proposed bill contains $1 trillion for states. Are you kidding me? These states are the ones who pissed it all away. TO SAVE ECONOMY: only one solution: give the money DIRECT to 128mm workers. Everything else flushes money down the toilet and helps nobody. Save workers
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James Altucher
6 years
The average person spends 4 hours 40 minutes on their phone every day. 145 hours a month. I leave the phone at home now. In 145 hours you can WRITE a book, GET a pilot's license, spend TIME w kids, START a business. 1 month. Now imagine 12
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James Altucher
5 years
Being worried that automation and AI will hurt society is like being worried in 1440 that the printing press would hurt society and cause mass unemployment of scribes
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James Altucher
5 years
Would people be interested if @AndrewYang was on the podcast? #YangGang
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James Altucher
4 years
HOW TO BLEED IN THE FIRST LINE: Because I grew up ugly, I have decent "first sentences" when I meet people. It's hard for me to make a good impression. "Ugly" has been my boot camp for living.  Here are 12 first lines from my favorite books and WHY they "bleed"... ENJOY! (1/x):
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James Altucher
4 years
I’m glad @JerrySeinfeld took the time from his compound in the Hamptons to write a piece on me without addressing any of the actual problems NYC faces. - some putz from LinkedIn
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Bill Grueskin
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Imagine waking up one morning to find, as ⁦ @jaltucher ⁩ did today, that you’ve been called “some putz on LinkedIn” ... by Jerry Seinfeld
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James Altucher
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I love this idea.
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James Altucher
4 years
I feel like I need a restraining order against this guy. I only wish he would address the actual problems, which have gotten worse since my original article came out. Here are some of the latest:
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@60Minutes
60 Minutes
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When a local comedy club owner posted an essay on LinkedIn this summer, claiming New York City would never bounce back from COVID, Jerry Seinfeld wrote a strong rebuttal.
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James Altucher
4 years
Answer: Never. Midtown will be a ghost town. Broadway is out of business. 60% of restaurants are never coming back. Commercial real estate all bankrupt. In 10 yrs the entire city will be a giant Amazon warehouse with people ordering drone delivery from halal trucks on 11th Avenue
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Brandon Webb
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How long until NYC recovers? My friends are saying 5-10 years. Hospitality and commercial RE are being transformed as we speak. City could very well go BK. Thoughts? @jaltucher what say you friend?
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James Altucher
4 years
Student loan forgiveness is taking money from blue collar workers (plumbers, firemen, garbage collectors, transit workers) and giving it to middle class kids who spent 4 yrs learning nothing and having a ton of sex. Tuitions will go up, and more kids will borrow money. Smart!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Student loan forgiveness is good, actually
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James Altucher
4 years
I always have to remind myself of this advice from a man I admire.
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James Altucher
7 years
10 things you can do every day with ZERO talent
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James Altucher
4 years
In Warren and AOC's student loan forgiveness plan, the top 40% of households get almost all the benefit. The bottom 40%, almost nothing. This is the opposite of progressive. It must be a superpower to be able to convince parasites that they are victims.
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James Altucher
3 years
Bitcoin energy consumption vs gold mining and banking.
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James Altucher
4 years
Harvard borrowed $9,000,000 from the Payment Protection Plan. To protect employees’ pay. The CEO of the $41 billion Harvard Endowment makes...$9,000,000. Mission accomplished.
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James Altucher
4 years
Scam of the day: The market is up because the Fed announced yesterday they are directly buying corporate bonds. IMPORTANT to understand: this means a company can borrow money and the Fed will wink, "We got your back." But the individual who is struggling to pay bills - "FK you."
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James Altucher
4 years
We're living in the "upside down". Kids can't go to school but I just saw a job opening for 15 yr olds at the grocery store. Let's put them at risk of getting a deadly virus delivering canned tuna to rich people who clap for 2 mins at 7PM but make sure they can't get educated.
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James Altucher
2 years
ARE YOU A 5-25er? The Warren Buffett 5/25 rule has been very important in keeping me from failure: Investing is the one thing Buffett mastered above all other interests. But the 5/25 rule is his technique of achieving mastery of ANYTHING. First, what is it? (1/x)
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James Altucher
4 years
When I walk around NYC now, about 20% of restaurants have "for rent" signs. Sadly...CLOSED FOREVER. Competition is GONE. This could actually be the BEST time to open a restaurant in NYC. What other types of industries will mostly fail, leaving possible opportunity?
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James Altucher
4 years
You are what you put your attention towards. If you watch birds all the time, you might be an ornithologist. If you play golf all the time, maybe you should be a golf pro. If you argue on Twitter all the time about the election, you are probably a piece of shit.
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James Altucher
4 years
COVID-19 has shown us what the myths of society are and now they are quickly unraveling. Here's 13 MYTHS THAT COVID IS SHINING ITS LIGHT ON: (1/14):
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James Altucher
5 years
When my daughters explained Andrew Yang to me. #YangGang @AndrewYang
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James Altucher
4 years
When a newspaper headline says, "US deaths now exceed Italy," that's when you cancel your subscription. US is 5x the population of Italy. US car deaths exceed Italy every year also. The amount of Italian meals eaten in the US exceeds Italy every year.
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James Altucher
4 years
In US: - There's not going to be 150mm cases - No 20% hospitalization rate (ridiculous) - fatality rate < 1% (of cases with symptoms). - Social distance to lower risk (I am) - there will be more suicides than corona deaths if business halt continues.
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James Altucher
7 years
Don’t buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
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James Altucher
6 years
If you can’t walk away from a negotiation, then you aren’t negotiating. You’re just working out the terms of your slavery.
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James Altucher
7 years
This I've learned: care what other people think and you'll always be their prisoner. I have to remind myself every day.
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James Altucher
4 years
ANY new stimulus bill right now, SHOULD NOT be money for companies. If goal to stimulate economy money needs to go direct to people. Airlines, cruises, colleges, etc are NOT going to spend the money on employees. People SPEND = money supply increases = economy++ . No more BS
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James Altucher
4 years
I guess a guy who has 190 million listeners a month and fact checks everything can be banned by a 24 yr old nobody at Spotify. Note: When you only say what people want, you help nobody but yourself. When say the truth, this is the only way to help others. @joerogan @TimJDillon
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James Altucher
6 years
If you want to be successful, you need to study success, not hate it or be envious of it. If you are envious, then you will distance yourself from success and make it that much harder to get there. Never be jealous. Never think someone is “lucky.” Luck is created by the prepared.
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James Altucher
4 years
@DonWanThe1 @TimJDillon I use the version of Google at "". I typed into the search box "salas epstein" and this was the first result of 4,000,000 results:
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James Altucher
6 years
All problems are emotional. All solutions are spiritual.
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James Altucher
4 years
Cognitive issues + sexual allegations + potential political scandal + segregation / race issues. From my own sources I hear Dem leadership is sh*tting in their pants. Prediction: he bows out for "medical reasons". It's a wide open brokered convention. Possibilities are: (1/2)
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James Altucher
4 years
How I deal w/anxiety during this time: A) ask what is worst case?- B) ask "what am I really anxious about?" money? getting sick? family? - C) sleep 8 hrs/day for immune system & anxiety D) eat well - E) DON'T BE AROUND TOXIC PEOPLE - F) Be creative - G) help at least ONE person
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James Altucher
6 years
These are the BIGGEST LIES society has taught me to believe...
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James Altucher
6 years
If you can't change the people around you, change the people around you.
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James Altucher
5 years
Happy people: don't show off, don't need validation, learn every day, help people, are affectionate, laugh a lot, ignore bullshit, live longer.
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James Altucher
6 years
HAPPY PEOPLE 1. Don't compare 2. Don't complain. 3. Laugh more. 4. Move more. 5. Meet friends, but avoid meetings. 6. Do something they are afraid of every day. 7. Rest.
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James Altucher
4 years
The W.H.O now says Sweden is the example to follow dealing with C19. Sweden had no economic shutdown. When the US made its policy, the projections were wildly off. Time to reconsider the policy given the example in Sweden, new data, etc.
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James Altucher
4 years
Great interview just finished with @AndrewYang . I learned so much. Spoke about the campaign (things I had not heard him say before), the UBI in today's world, police reform, politics, economics, education, 2024, ups and downs. Releasing quickly! Thanks Andrew! #yanggang
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James Altucher
4 years
Why would anyone go back to a corporate job? I've ruined my stomach forever by holding it in all day rather than sharing a communal bathroom with my coworkers. That is the #1 reason I wanted to be a writer or an entrepreneur. ANYTHING to avoid shitting next to my boss.
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James Altucher
4 years
Kids: - can't get educated - can't go outside and get Vitamin D to boost immune system - can't run around and exercise - forced to stay with more susceptible-to-C19 parents - can't see friends (being social boosts immune system) Gen Z just got screwed.
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James Altucher
4 years
The reason Neil Ferguson (author of the Imperial College) changed his mind (now he says < 20,000 deaths and he recants "> 500,000 deaths) is because the # of asymptomatic cases is MUCH higher than thought. so % fatalities MUCH MUCH lower and peak sooner.
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James Altucher
4 years
We need leadership: In Flint, MI, the Sheriff put down his baton and gun and asked the protesters, "what can I do to help?" They said, "Walk with us!" SO HE DID. Leadership. Everyone gets to choose now: are you a leader or are you a robot?
@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
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Genesee County Sheriff (Flint, Michigan) Chris Swanson put down his helmet and baton and asked protesters how he could help. The protesters chanted "walk with us" so the Sheriff joined — and walked alongside the protesters in solidarity. Leadership.🌎❤️
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James Altucher
5 years
The 100 Rules for Entrepreneurship:
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James Altucher
4 years
Colleges finally concede: you don't need to come here anymore. It's just as good (even better) to take classes online. Most online schools are free. We've been raising tuitions 10% a year for 50 years only because you've been stupid enough to borrow it and pay us.
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James Altucher
4 years
The virus is enhancing what is already inside each person: - Jerks are turning into bigger jerks. - Compassionate people are becoming more compassionate. You get to decide in this very difficult time who you really are. Hopefully, we all make the right decision.
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white to move and mate in one. #chess #chesspunks . a reminder that no matter how safe you think you are in life, career, health, you can never ignore the risks
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James Altucher
4 years
Today, I called real estate agents in South Florida and in Austin. I asked about 5 houses that I liked. ALL of them are considering offers now 20-30% higher than listing price (rental). All offers from NYC, Boston, and SF. Real estate abt to go up HUGE in 2nd tier cities
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James Altucher
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"Bitcoin is just the realization that code is speech & money is code so money is just speech" Translation: w/ @naval
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James Altucher
4 years
Bush’s letter to Clinton on the day Clinton took office. Proof we don’t need to be so polarized when so many are struggling.
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James Altucher
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"No matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your audience is: 33 percent will love it, 33 percent will hate it, and 33 percent won't care. Stick with the people who love you and don't spend a single second on the rest." Pg 215 of "Choose Yourself"
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James Altucher
4 years
Just saw a headline: "Number of deaths continue to increase". Uhhh...unless people are COMING BACK from the dead then "number of deaths" will ALWAYS increase. Solution: shut down the news for two weeks.
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James Altucher
4 years
Looting is not protesting. Violence is not protesting. Rioting is not protesting. Prosperity for all, rights for all - moving towards that - is protesting (via strike, boycott, mass gathering). Can someone explain how this is righteous?
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James Altucher
5 years
Here are some people who accomplished things late in life. I admire all of them. I’m 51, and one day I’m going to figure out what I want to do with my life:
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James Altucher
4 years
The fastest way to lose all your money and mutilate your heart is to work with people you don’t like.
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James Altucher
4 years
What's scary is: how easily we, as a population, so easily allowed martial-law type restrictions without even questioning it. Maybe they are good, maybe not. But the military going to "enforce" social distancing should always be questioned. What will happen next time?
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James Altucher
4 years
MYTH: Humans are smarter NOW than 40,000 years ago. Compare: 40,000 years ago a human knew EVERY fruit, animal, predator, plant, tree within a 5 mile radius. Today: people call each other "libtards" and "fascists" on Twitter all day long. Then watch "Tiger King". (12/14)
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James Altucher
7 years
Here are some people who accomplished things late in life. I admire all of them. I’m 47, and one day I’m going to figure out what I want to do with my life:
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James Altucher
5 years
I used to think it was everyone else keeping me down: a boss, a parent, peers, teachers, gatekeepers... But that was just an excuse. I realized what my prison looked like ONLY when I looked at the words I was using every day. The Words I used were the bricks of my prison.
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James Altucher
5 years
In the past ten years 1,000,000 people have gone to the ER with gym-related injuries. 114 died. ZERO people have died while reading a book at home. Read a book, save a life.
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James Altucher
6 years
Be slow to criticize and fast to appreciate. My life became so much better once I followed this.
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James Altucher
6 years
your boss won't fix the economy. the govt won't. Your partners won't. There's NO SUCH THING as "the economy". Only you can fix your bank acct. For everything u want in life, choose yourself to get it. And, uhhh, be kind to people.
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James Altucher
4 years
@MikeVivier @jockowillink @ScottAdamsSays @joerogan @tferriss @foundmyfitness @PeterAttiaMD @DominicDAgosti2 Really need a doctor to comment. BUT...here is some data. Not sure how out of date this is but interesting: (btw, the important comment here is that THIS IS NOT a political issue and shouldn't be made into one). The chart is of countries using HCQ as a prophylaxis
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James Altucher
4 years
In reality, Men are only in ONE political party: The Bachelor Party. We will believe in whatever will make women attracted to us. "Oh, you're a little warm and want the entire world to be one degree colder?" No problem! Let's spend 60 trillion dollars to turn the temperature down
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James Altucher
4 years
Funny that #RIPAmerica is trending. Guess what? Lenin said it, Hitler said it, Stalin said it, Mao said it, economists said it in 2008. America has led every increase in quality of life in past 100 years. If you hate the player, you're probably playing the wrong game
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James Altucher
2 years
WHAT THE MEDIA SAYS: Bill Gates is donating his money to charity. BUT REALITY IS: Bill Gates is giving his money to HIS OWN foundation as a way to give all of his money to his children so they pay ZERO inheritance tax. Don't believe the hype.
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James Altucher
2 years
This is why there is inflation…
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James Altucher
4 years
I have 5 kids, ages 18-21, so I put together a reading list for them as they set out in this uncertain world. Here are 5 books every intern needs to read: (cc @tferriss @garyvee @SPressfield )
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James Altucher
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If you want to be successful, you need to study success, not hate it or be envious of it. If you are envious, then you will distance yourself from success and make it that much harder to get there. Never be jealous. Never think someone is “lucky.” Luck is created by the prepared.
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James Altucher
6 years
. @tferriss Love the "Quote you are pondering" today: “It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.” — Millard Fuller ... I've learned this from so many podcast guests.
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James Altucher
4 years
These past few weeks I've learned something about the phrase: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Most people hate themselves, judge themselves, spite themselves. Then they "do unto others".
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James Altucher
6 years
When I forget this, I lose my life. Thanks to whoever made this quote graphic. When I write things down like this, it's not for others but a constant reminder to a flawed and anxious me.
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James Altucher
4 years
I’m glad I inspired @JerrySeinfeld to finally write new jokes.
@therudejeff
Jeff Rude
4 years
@jaltucher @JerrySeinfeld @normmacdonald For the record, I’d have to say that @jaltucher has added more value to people’s lives on a grand scale than Seinfeld has. Jerry is a joker, James is a sage.
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