The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.
— James Altucher
I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.
Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
Most people don't have the power of persuasion.
The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.
Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.
The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.
I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.
Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.
I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.
Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.
If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.
Every tomorrow is determined by every today.
Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.
You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.
People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.
Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.
Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.
Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.
Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.
It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.
America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.
Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'
Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.
We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.
Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.
Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.
Games are all about taking risks.
A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.
When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.
Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.
My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
