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Get People To Like You

James Altucher has two surefire ways.

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8/10/2013

How To Avoid Death

James Altucher on surrounding yourself with the right people.

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7/31/2013

How To Win at Monopoly

Every time. Article by James Altucher.

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7/13/2013

Your Doctor Is Going To Kill You

James Altucher has the antidote.

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7/9/2013

Sheik Crime

James Altucher on a $10 million close call.

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6/20/2013

Stay Out of Politics

James Altucher does the right thing.

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6/19/2013

Publish Your Own Book

Avoid the dying dino-firms, says James Altucher.

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5/17/2013

College Is a Scam

James Altucher schools a bunch of educators.

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4/19/2013

Is College a Scam?

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4/16/2013

LESS

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4/5/2013

Unschool Yourself!

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4/1/2013

Three Stories About Billionaires

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2/18/2013

10 Reasons Why You Have To Quit Your Job This Year

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1/8/2013

How Not To Pay for Your Student Loans

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11/15/2012

7 Things I Learned From Hurricane Sandy

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11/2/2012

How To Break Free From Prison

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10/26/2012

Why I Won't Vote

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10/23/2012

How To Become an Idea Machine

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10/13/2012

How To Deal With Burnout, Get Rich Quick Schemes, Stage Fright, and Brain Explosion

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10/10/2012

How To Diversify Your Life

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10/8/2012

Advice for a 23-Year-Old

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9/28/2012

Today You Started a Business

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9/26/2012

Competence and the Beatles Last Concert

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9/21/2012

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People

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8/27/2012

The Ten Ways I Lie

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8/24/2012

The Trillion Dollar Lies

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8/6/2012

Public Schools Are Prisons

6 other reasons to unschool your kids.

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7/21/2012

My Wacky, Up and Down Life

And how I finally got it right – emotionally, spiritually, and financially.

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7/13/2012

10 Ways It Makes You More Money

James Altucher on honesty.

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7/9/2012

10 Reasons It’s OK To Fail

As successful people often do.

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7/5/2012

Multi-Tasking Will Kill You

It's also rude. James Altucher on 3 ways to prevent it.

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6/25/2012

There Are 27 Ways To Harm Someone

But don't do it. Choose pacifism instead, says James Altucher.

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6/12/2012

10 Life-Changing Decisions

That we make without even thinking about them.

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5/19/2012

Is Google Turning Us into Cyborgs?

James Altucher on not going to college and other searches.

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5/17/2012

10 Ways To Make People Like You More

No. 1, Die.

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5/8/2012

Tipping, College Loans, Jewish Vampires, and More

James Altucher answers questions.

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4/23/2012

10 Hot Brainstorms

There is just one rule, says James Altucher, for coming up with your own new and successful ideas.

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4/20/2012

40 Alternatives to College

James Altucher on not being brainwashed and put in massive debt.

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4/18/2012

Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!…

James Altucher on 5 things he learned from Superman.

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4/14/2012

Should You Go to B-School, or Send Your Offspring?

What, are you crazy?

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4/9/2012

How To Be Less Stupid

Avoid these 9 things.

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4/7/2012

Wine Tastes Bad

The news is a joke, and so are vacations and the food pyramid. Admit it, says James Altucher.

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3/31/2012

How To Disappear Completely

And never be found. James Altucher considered it.

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3/29/2012

How To Quit Therapy

And why you must never start.

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3/26/2012

Who Makes Money on Wall Street?

5 types, and they don't include you, says James Altucher.

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3/21/2012

Georgetown’s $400,000 ‘Education’

And why the university attacked James Altucher.

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3/16/2012

About the Time I Went Deaf

And liked it.

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3/10/2012

How I Became Dear Abby

Only funnier and far more useful.

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3/8/2012

6 Reasons Not To Go to College

You become poorer and less educated.

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3/6/2012

10 Lessons For My Daughters

James Altucher: Archives Past articles by James Altucher on LewRockwell.com 6 other reasons to unschool your kids. My Wacky, Up and Down Life And how I finally got it right – emotionally, spiritually, and financially. 10 Ways It Makes You More Money James Altucher on honesty. 10 Reasons It's OK To Fail As successful people often do. Multi-Tasking Will Kill You It's also rude. James Altucher on 3 ways to prevent it. There Are 27 Ways To Harm Someone But don't do it. Choose pacifism instead, says James Altucher. 10 Life-Changing Decisions That we make without even thinking about them. Is Google Turning Us into Cyborgs? James Altucher on not going to college and other searches. 10 Ways To Make People Like You More No. 1, Die. Tipping, College Loans, Jewish Vampires, and More James Altucher answers questions. 10 Hot Brainstorms There is just one rule, says James Altucher, for coming up with your own new and successful ideas. 40 Alternatives to College James Altucher on not being brain

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2/28/2012

How To Increase Your Productivity 500%

James Altucher on the 9 principles.

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2/23/2012

11 Things To Do When She Leaves You

And 1 thing to do if she doesn't.

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2/16/2012

10 Ways To Forgive

The person you want to kill.

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2/11/2012

Falling in Love for the 1st Time

And 5 ways to get something good out of bad things that happen to you.

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2/7/2012

I Haven’t Gotten a Cold in 3 Years

James Altucher on the 6 reasons.

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2/3/2012

Self-Publish Your Own Book

It's the new business card, says James Altucher.

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1/31/2012

The 10 Keys To Selling Anything

And, btw, negotiation is worthless, says James Altucher.

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1/28/2012

Yoga Has Shamed Me

James Altucher on India, exercise, and drugs.

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1/26/2012

How To Have the Force With You

James Altucher on the 7 rules.

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1/24/2012

I Hate Woody Allen

But I learned 9 important things from him for life and business, says James Altucher.

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1/19/2012

20 Ways To Restore Faith

When everything goes wrong.

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1/14/2012

My Last Death Threat?

James Altucher on what happens when you write about the economy.

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1/3/2012

When You’ve Been Knocked Down

9 unusual ways to get up off the floor, from James Altucher.

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12/30/2011

Mainstream Medicine Almost Killed My Wife

James Altucher on how alternative care saved her, and him, too.

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12/26/2011

My PhD in Poker

What James Altucher learned from 365 days of playing cards all night.

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12/17/2011

My Platform for Vice President

James Altucher has 6 reasons you should vote for him.

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12/12/2011

College Almost Wrecked Me

Here's 10 things I didn't learn, says James Altucher.

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12/1/2011

Pearl Harbor Caused the Financial Crisis

James Altucher on yet another crime that can be ascribed to FDR.

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11/28/2011

Yoda Saved me $20 Million

James Altucher on surrendering.

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11/26/2011

4 Rules To Make You Unpredictable

And therefore successful, says James Altucher.

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11/17/2011

8 Principles

James Altucer on creating your own luck. (NB: adult language.)

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11/12/2011

How To Have More Common Sense

James Altucher on 8 rules.

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11/10/2011

Are You a Dirty Entrepreneur?

Let's hope so, says James Altucher.

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11/8/2011

How To Change the World

That is, how to Occupy yourself.

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11/4/2011

The #1 Most Effective Habit for Success

Maybe the only one.

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11/3/2011

The 9 Most Important Networking Skills

James Altucher on how to become a super-connector.

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10/29/2011

7 Things I Learned

From my 8 greatest teachers.

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10/28/2011

The Top 10 Top 10 Lists

Of all time.

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10/26/2011

10 Unusual Ways To Get into the Top 1%

The top 1% of the happiest people on earth, that is. Article by James Altucher.

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10/22/2011

7 Things Happen to You

When you're completely honest, says James Altucher.

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10/20/2011

Ask Altucher

James answers 12 readers' questions on what is success, how to get rich, online dating, meditation, OWS, and more. NB: adult language.

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10/17/2011

Ask James Altucher

He answers readers' questions on the presidency, financial bubbles, love, dating, and more.

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10/11/2011

6 Things I Learned From a Bad Man

Who was an extraordinary writer.

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10/6/2011

How To Deal With a Bad Boss

9 rules from James Altucher.

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10/4/2011

Abolish the FDA, Health Insurance, and Medical Schools

Before they kill us all, says James Altucher.

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9/29/2011

Dear James:

Altucher answers reader questions on love, business, dating, and greed. NB: strong language.

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9/26/2011

100 Rules for Being an Entrepreneur

And running a business.

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9/23/2011

9 Ways To Break All the Rules

And be honest like Ron Paul.

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9/21/2011

10 Scams We Encounter Every Day

James Altucher on seeing through them. NB: Strong language.

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9/19/2011

I Woke Up Scared and Angry Today

James Altucher on how he handled it.

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9/17/2011

6 Unusual Things I Learned About Life

From hula hooping.

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9/15/2011

20 Ways

To deal with regrets.

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9/14/2011

10 Things I Don’t Want To Talk About

And why.

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9/12/2011

Assume You’re the Dumbest Person in the Room

James Altucher on how to be the smartest person on the planet.

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9/9/2011

Forget the Elections

Abolish the presidency, says James Altucher.

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9/1/2011

‘I Want To Die’

Actually not, says James Altucher.

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8/30/2011

7 Things About Success

James Altucher on what he learned from Charlie Brown cartoonist Charles Schultz.

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8/26/2011

Lifting the Federal Curse

And other ways to be human. Article by James Altucher. NB: some strong language.

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8/24/2011

9 Ways To Light Your Creativity

On FIRE.

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8/17/2011

Give and You Will Receive

James Altucher on 13 personal ways not involving official charities.

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8/8/2011

The 10 Commandments of the American Religion

The hypnotized masses walk blindly towards their destruction, says James Altucher.

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8/3/2011

#3, Slur Your Words

James Altucher on 11 unusual methods of being a great public speaker.

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8/2/2011

You Need To Quit Your Job RIGHT NOW

James Altucher has 10 reasons.

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7/26/2011

I Hate Publishing Companies

So I self-published my book. Here's a step-by-step guide for you to do it, too, says James Altucher.

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7/23/2011

Why I Would Rather Shoot Myself in the Head

Than own a home.

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7/21/2011

‘I Decided To Stop Lying’

James Altucher on why honesty is not only morally right, but healthy. NB: adult language.

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7/7/2011

Abolish Congress

James Altucher: Archives Past articles by James Altucher on LewRockwell.com 6 other reasons to unschool your kids. My Wacky, Up and Down Life And how I finally got it right – emotionally, spiritually, and financially. 10 Ways It Makes You More Money James Altucher on honesty. 10 Reasons It's OK To Fail As successful people often do. Multi-Tasking Will Kill You It's also rude. James Altucher on 3 ways to prevent it. There Are 27 Ways To Harm Someone But don't do it. Choose pacifism instead, says James Altucher. 10 Life-Changing Decisions That we make without even thinking about them. Is Google Turning Us into Cyborgs? James Altucher on not going to college and other searches. 10 Ways To Make People Like You More No. 1, Die. Tipping, College Loans, Jewish Vampires, and More James Altucher answers questions. 10 Hot Brainstorms There is just one rule, says James Altucher, for coming up with your own new and successful ideas. 40 Alternatives to College James Altucher on not being brain

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7/5/2011

Politics Is a Scam

I will never vote again, says James Altucher.

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6/28/2011

Steve Jobs Is Half Arab

And other fascinating things you didn't know about him.

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2/25/2011

Forget College

Get a life instead, says James Altucher.

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2/11/2011