Articles by James Altucher

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How Not To Pay for Your Student Loans

James Altucher is the Great Emancipator.

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11/15/2012

7 Things I Learned From Hurricane Sandy

And no, it didn't help the economy.

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11/2/2012

How To Break Free From Prison

Conquer these 13 things first.

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10/26/2012

Why I Won't Vote

It's a choice between 2 elaborate con games, says James Altucher. NB: some bad language.

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10/23/2012

How To Become an Idea Machine

James Altucher on the 10 steps.

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10/13/2012

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

Why I won't pay for them to go.

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10/10/2012

How To Diversify Your Life

HBO, too. So I did these 9 things, and won.

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10/8/2012

Advice for a 23-Year-Old

Don't be silly, says James Altucher.

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9/28/2012

Today You Started a Business

11 ways you have to work harder.

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9/26/2012

Competence and the Beatles Last Concert

And the Beatles last concert.

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9/21/2012

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People

James Altucher on 6 ways to achieve it.

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8/27/2012

The Ten Ways I Lie

And how James Altucher slowed, if not stopped, the process.

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8/24/2012

The Trillion Dollar Lies

James Altucher on homeownership, college, war, and voting.

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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

That we learned from a "Shark Tank" marathon.

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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