James Altucher

Curiosity is the leap into the unknown. What you find there will change your life forever. Will make you fly.

How does one take such a long term view at such a young age. I think it was the ten years she had spent developing her skills, singing in bars all over Alaska, preparing for this moment.

OK, I admit it: I bought a house because of a psychic.

Each election has to up the ante for entertainment.

If you improve 1% a day, then that’s 3800% per year (compounding each day). I want to get a little better at what I love each day.

If I stayed in graduate school, I don’t know. I’d have spent nine years working on a useless Phd thesis instead of interviewing prostitutes at 3 in the morning for HBO.

I failed as a father. My 17 year old is going to visit some colleges today.

Acquire career capital. And leverage it. This is how you get autonomy in the workplace.

The anxiety of being 22. A friend wrote: “I’m 22, I want to start a business, I want to write, I want to help entrepreneurship in my country. I can’t decide.”

We were all playing some sort of pile-up game and I was on top. One thing led to another.

Sometimes you can’t fix a problem. I’ve spent maybe at least 10% of my life trying to fix problems that have no solution. A problem should be an arrow, not a stop sign.

We all pay a toll every extra day we spend on this planet. Once you stop paying that toll, it’s all over.