My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure. - James Altucher

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If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen.

James Altucher

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

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If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1
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1 strategy.

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Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.

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Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

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When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

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Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.

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