James Altucher Quotes

I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability.

I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

I couldn't not be who I am. That bubble eventually bursts down the road. So you just have to be real, and when you goof up, say you goofed up.

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.