James Altucher Quotes

I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

The word 'commercial' implies a notion of profit.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization.

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

How can I go out there and create value?

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.