James Altucher

Immediately send your resume around. You are not necessarily leaving, but if you haven’t sent your resume out in two years, then there is danger of becoming inbred. You must to know what your value on the market is.

It’s called buying low and selling high.

Gratuitous positive thinking for the sake of being positive just doesn’t work.

When you get out of your comfort zone, you change. You learn.

I create my opportunities. In my entire life nobody has ever magically given me one.

I’m a man of my word. If every single person who buys the book takes advantage of this opportunity, then I will lose money on it (since Amazon takes their cut). But I’ll be just as happy because it means the message will spread and you, the people who read the book, will be helped.

But I used a technique that’s worked for me many times since then – I “faked it til I made it”.

1) Create your luck.

One time Gandhi said to a group of his backers, “I need to set aside one hour a day to do meditation.” One of the backers said, “oh no, you can’t do that! You are too busy, Gandhi!” Gandhi said, “Well, then, I now need to set aside two hours a day to do meditation.”

Yesterday I pictured I was dead. I was flying from NYC to LA. I don’t like turbulence and there was heavy turbulence mid-day. So I have my anti-turbulence technique. I picture that I am dead.

In fifth grade I licked my first taste of romance. My first flirtation with intrigue.

If you type in “I Want to Die” into Google, my website is the first result.

I’m telling you right now to pull the plug on me and let me die. Whatever reader who is reading this that is closest to the plug, please unplug it and just let me die.

Ask yourself, “What am I doing TODAY?”

It’s the body’s way of saying, “Whoops! Time is up. You need to make a change.”

I wanted to quit my job. I hated my boss.

Suddenly I was in business. I had payroll to make. And I had a fulltime job on the side.

Never do anything you don’t want to do.