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Altucher: Execution is not superior to ideas, it is a subset
“Execution, people say ideas are nothing. Execution is everything. That's not true. Execution is just a subset of ideas.”
Altucher: Avoiding self-promotion and showing vulnerability led to greater business success
“I've had more opportunities in business than ever. Like, I've, like, I've done better in business than I ever have before by specifically avoiding business in, in a weird way.”
Altucher: Reading and writing in massive volume are the only requirements
“You know, in order to be a good writer, you have to do two things only. And by good writer, I don't necessarily mean like poetic or, you know, best selling or whatever. I just mean someone who can communicate a message and do it in a way that people notice. Yo…”
Altucher: Read fiction for prose craft and nonfiction for ideas
“High quality nonfiction won't always have the best writing because the writer of high quality nonfiction is usually very good at their ideas or what they're writing about, but high quality fiction will be very good writing, so I learned from both.”
Altucher: Failing to generate ideas for two weeks causes creative atrophy
“If you don't come up with ideas after, like, let's say two weeks, your idea muscle has atrophied.”
Altucher: Co-investing with top VCs outsources due diligence and follow-on funding
“So, so I always find venture capitalists Who are smarter than me, who have more successful track records than me, and if they're going into a deal where I know also they're gonna be in the next round, and the next round, I'm happy to invest alongside of them. …”