James Altucher Quotes

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

Don’t talk to the people until you’ve listened to the people.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

I think there's plenty of folks out there, whether they agree with me or not, they appreciate the fact that you're listening to them. And I think that's how you win.

Sometimes, it's hard for me to communicate my discomfort because I want to be respectful. At the same time, I've learned that you have to ask people on your team to help you out.

I want to spend time sitting down with as many people as possible and learn the important issues before us.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.