James Altucher

We’re all just trying to survive. We all have our insecurities. We can sink in them or try very hard to rise above them.

Got depressed when I was unhappy in a relationship but we were living together and both of us too poor to move out.

Confidence and esteem has nothing to do with how you react to what other think of you.

Every year has difficulties. Difficulties are normal. It’s how you live your life each day that determines how you create a lifetime.

“Tell me something I don’t know.”

In the alley there was a shaft elevator that was open. Some people were inside it. It’s also the smallest museum in New York City.

If I can tell my children to read one post of mine, it would be this post.

Whenever I follow this rule, my life gets exponentially better very quickly.

This is my favorite line in any movie ever. Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka delivers the line as if it were truly possible to get everything you ever wanted.

This is what I do now to “trick” myself into confidence. I hate “hacks” and “tricks”. But I need to survive also and feed people and make myself function.

I looked at the list and got scared anyway. I felt like a con man.

It’s hard not to be buried in a coffin at age 25, even though we might live another 50 years after we are buried.

Very important: There’s no rush. You will reinvent yourself many times in an interesting life. You will fail to reinvent many times. That’s fun also.

Don’t give your self-esteem to someone else to watch over.

I was passionate when I was throwing hard pointed rocks at other little kids.

Someone stole $90 million from a company I was involved in. I’m a poor judge of people. The company collapsed.

And how do we know what’s even calling us, what obsesses us?

I got an email at 5 in the morning that made me angry. It pressed every button. It accused. It threatened. It CC-ed people.