James Altucher Quotes

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

When you have no idea what to do or how to do it, you just need to see and absorb as much as you possibly can and just fill your vocabulary and your brain with as much as humanly possible.

Read, read read. Read everything.

I had a friend who was the King's surgeon in England. One day I asked him what makes a great surgeon. He replied, "What distinguishes a great surgeon is his knowledge. He knows more than other surgeons. During an operation he finds something which he wasn't expecting, recognizes it and knows what to do about it." It's the same thing with advertising people. The good ones know more. How do you get to know more? By reading books about advertising. By picking the brains of people who know more than you do. From the Magic Lanterns. And from experience.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

All my knowledge comes from research.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

It's always important to read, to know something about this world, so I try to learn, to know, to see what I can learn for myself. Be it from books, TV or the Internet, I try to know what happened in the world.

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.