James Altucher

The best way to take advantage of a booming stock market is to invest in your own ideas. If you have an extra $50,000 don’t put it into stocks. Put it into yourself. You’ll make 10,000% on that instead of 5% per year.

Wall Street is crooked. This is not really a surprise to anyone. I lived on the street. And I worked on the street. Wall Street starts at broadway and continues down to Water Street.

“Owning a home” is the “college” of the thirties. A 15 trillion dollar mortgage industry hypnotizes society into thinking that “owning a home is a smart investment” or you “need roots.”

My reality changes, but if I do my daily practice, I increase the chances that the positive side of my reality goes up.

I know what it’s like to be a CEO. It’s not about having an idea. It’s not about execution. It’s not about motivating people. Those are the easy things.

The best entrepreneurs are not risk-takers. They spend every day reducing risk.

This post. This photograph. You. Me. I hope we can tape this together. I hope we can connect.

I scratched my back until it bled. And I never stopped. My back right now is a bloody Jackson Pollack painting. A bathtub of blood. Doctors don’t even touch it. Very attractive. My best feature maybe.

“Oh! I forgot to tell you. I accidentally made two million dollars this morning,” Dave told me.

I am mentally ill. And I’m in a mid-life crisis. I’m dishonest. And I’m a horrible father. And I think with my dick.

This race for President is a joke. But so is every race. What maniac would ever want to be President?

If anything, the more you accomplish, the more you can afford to get rid of the things society uses to hold you down.