James Altucher Quotes

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.

I like to be pretty streamlined, to maximize our time on the practice floor. I like to make sure I'm respectful of our players' time.

We need to execute fewer things better.

There's always a better way to do something.

Let's say I don't need to chase the ball as much as before. You learn to find the shortcuts.

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.

Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.