James Altucher Quotes

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

People only speak to get something.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

People are not what they seem. Some of them are sweet and kind to you, but that's not their real face.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.

I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.