Personal Stories

• My Minimalism Manifesto
  Posted by James Altucher on December 29th, 2011 at 9:05 am, Comments: 0

  Claudia and I spent the entire Thanksgiving on an airplane, going from San Francisco to New York. We avoided the entire holiday. Cooking, cleaning, getting [...]

• Why I Write Ideas Every Day
  Posted by James Altucher on November 6th, 2011 at 6:31 pm, Comments: 0

  The last time I used a phone booth I ended up with shit all over my head. I had to get tampons or diapers or [...]

• I Surrender
  Posted by James Altucher on October 30th, 2011 at 5:18 pm, Comments: 0

  I was going to go out of business or get sued. I had just started my fund of hedge funds and on our fourth month [...]

• My One Year Blogiversary – What I’ve Learned
  Posted by James Altucher on October 27th, 2011 at 2:41 pm, Comments: 0

  I think I amputated my arm on this blog over this past year.  At one point Henry Blodget asked me, “what happened to you?” because [...]

• I’m Running for Vice-President of the United States
  Posted by James Altucher on October 23rd, 2011 at 6:20 pm, Comments: 0

  “Dan Quayle might go down in history as one of the greatest Vice-Presidents of all time.” I said that. “I’m sure after Dan Quayle dies [...]

• Why “I Was Blind But Now I See” is My Best Book Ever (and now on Kindle)
  Posted by James Altucher on October 17th, 2011 at 8:43 pm, Comments: 0

  I’m not going to brag. The purpose of this post is to inform on three things: A) A lot of people have been asking me [...]

• 7 Things I Learned from My 8 Greatest Teachers
  Posted by James Altucher on October 16th, 2011 at 11:04 am, Comments: 0

  Yesterday was my 25th high school reunion. I wanted to go. I had a car key and I could’ve driven there. I was close to [...]

• How to Use Gratitude to Get Rich
  Posted by James Altucher on October 10th, 2011 at 10:06 am, Comments: 0

  “Why am I totally dead broke again?” that’s what I thought the last time I had started a business that failed. I had no income. [...]

• The Worst Boss Ever
  Posted by James Altucher on October 5th, 2011 at 2:28 pm, Comments: 0

  “I think she’s a money hungry slut,” was the answer to my question. Let me back up twelve hours before that was said. I had [...]

• 6 Things I Learned from Charles Bukowski
  Posted by James Altucher on October 4th, 2011 at 3:35 pm, Comments: 0

  Bukowski was disgusting, his actual real fiction is awful, he’s been called a misogynist, overly simplistic, the worst narcissist, (and probably all of the above [...]