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Altucher: Jerry Seinfeld wrote NYT op-ed attacking him, Cuomo emailed it
“Even Jerry Seinfeld wrote an op-ed in the New York Times just trashing me, which then Andrew Cuomo emailed to, like, everybody in New York State”
Altucher: Finance Media Figures Falsely Pretend They Are Never Wrong
“Finance, nobody was doing that. Like, I realized like, everybody was perfect in finance. They never were wrong. They were on CNBC, like, oh, well, of course, they're gonna raise, decrease interest rates, and the market's gonna go up or down, and everybody's, l…”
Altucher: Sharing ideas for free builds goodwill, charging creates zero goodwill
“You didn't charge. Like, you should absolutely not charge for, you know, if someone just wants to meet, or if someone wants you to share your ideas with their team, just go out, and you build up so much goodwill. With the good, there's zero goodwill if they ju…”
Altucher: Nobody wants to steal your ideas in 99.999% of cases
“First off, no one really wants to steal your ideas. In most, in 99.999% of the cases, no one could give a shit about your ideas.”
Altucher: Positive customer feedback carries zero informational value
“When someone says something positive, it actually has no informational value.”
Altucher: People Connect Deeply Through Shared Failures, Not Superficial Wealth
“And it's a, the language of the, our past fears and failures, that is the real way we all connect. Like if we all just had like a billion dollars and we met at cocktail parties, we're going to connect in this real superficial way. But if we're saying, look, I …”
Altucher: Google Manually Replaced His Post With Suicide Hotline
“There was a point where, because I wrote about this, there was a point where if you Googled, how do I kill myself, I was like the number one search result on Google, and then enough people complained that Google had to manually put in the national suicide hotl…”
Altucher: Sudden Wealth Blinds People to the Role of Luck and Timing
“The problem with making money is you think all of a sudden you're smart. Like, oh, I made money in this one area. I, you discount the fact that part of it is luck. There's always a luck factor. You discount the part that there's a lot of people involved in, in…”
Altucher: Replying to online detractors gives them your audience
“And not only that, you lend your complete, legitimate, valid audience to him for that tweet. And so he can now use that audience for his purpose. That certainly wasn't your intent. So that's why now I'm very careful about, like, every time I click reply, and I…”
Altucher: Cold-emailing daily idea lists led to speaking gigs at Google, Facebook, and Airbnb
“And I've been doing this now, writing 10 ideas a day for over 20 years. I've, because I send many of them out, I've been invited to speak at Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, I spoke at Airbnb's main conference. I've been out to Quora and met, met all of them, and j…”
Altucher: A hedge fund manager gave him $5M without understanding his software
“And somebody, a big hedge fund manager, I sent them my software for how I do my investing, and he said, well, I don't get your software, but I'll give you five million dollars to manage, and then I started a hedge fund out of that.”