Think Like a Billionaire
Written by James Altucher
Narrated by James Altucher
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
What do Tyra Banks, Ev Williams, and Richard Branson have in common? If you answered that they’re all extremely wealthy, you’d be right. But you’d also be missing a big part of the story.
James Altucher, the noted entrepreneur, venture capitalist, bestselling author of Choose Yourself, and host of the podcast The James Altucher Show — which has over 40 million downloads — has interviewed 15 of the most successful people in the world to figure out just what makes them tick. And the conclusions might surprise you.
For each of these people, money wasn't their ultimate goal — it was a natural byproduct of following their passions and developing good habits that enabled them to take advantage of their successes, and to learn from their failures.
From the founder of Spanx to the entrepreneur behind Home Depot, from a craft beer aficionado to the investors on Shark Tank, these visionaries honed their ideas and creativity, and used what they loved as a compass to guide their curiosity. That curiosity gave them the insights they needed to skip the line, to try new things, to diversify, and to hit the accelerator on their successes.
This isn’t some lofty self-help book. This is about real people who achieved their dreams and gained wealth and influence as a result. As Altucher notes, ultimately it’s not the number in the bank account that defines anyone — it’s asking if you’re living life to the best of your ability.
James Altucher
James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, prolific writer, podcaster, standup comedian, and chess master. He has started and run more than twenty companies and is invested in over thirty. He is the author of eighteen books, including the bestsellers The Power of No and Choose Yourself. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Observer, Financial Times, Huffington Post, and TechCrunch. He also writes a popular blog and hosts a successful podcast, The James Altucher Show, that has had over 80,000,000 downloads. An eight-episode docuseries based on Choose Yourself and produced by DNA Films was released on Amazon in 2020.
Related to Think Like a Billionaire
Related audiobooks
The 10 Pillars of Wealth: Mind-Sets of the World's Richest People Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Playing Bigger: How to Rewrite Your Story to Live a Bigger, Better Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prosperity Principles: How to Think and Act Like a Millionaire Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Common Path to Uncommon Success: A Roadmap to Financial Freedom and Fulfillment Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The April/May 2022 Audiozine Issue Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Be Obsessed Or Be Average Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5From Mopping Floors to Making Millions on Instagram: 5 Steps to Building an Online Brand Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs: Venture Finance Without Venture Capital Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Own It All: How to Stop Waiting for Change and Start Creating It. Because Your Life Belongs to You. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Larger Than Yourself: Reimagine Industries, Lead with Purpose & Grow Ideas into Movements Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Crypto Economy: How Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Token-Economy Are Disrupting the Financial World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New Prince: Why and How to Startup Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning and Achieving Your Goals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 7 Eternal Laws of Success Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unemployed Millionaire: Escape the Rat Race, Fire Your Boss, and Live Life on YOUR Terms! Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Skip the Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Financial Intelligence: How to To Be Smart with Your Money and Your Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Industry Influencer: Growing Your Brand Through Meaningful Connections and Engagement Online Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Small Business & Entrepreneurs For You
The Science Of Getting Rich Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Millionaire Fastlane, 10th Anniversary Edition: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enough: The Simple Path to Everything You Want -- A Field Guide for Perpetually Exhausted Entrepreneurs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Don't Start a Side Hustle!: Work Less, Earn More, and Live Free Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What’s Holding You Back?: Breaking Through Fear and Insufficiency to Achieve Your Goals Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning and Achieving Your Goals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Company Rules: Or Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the CIA Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Grow Your Small Business: A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 7 Secret Keys to Startup Success: What You Need to Know to Win Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Radical Abundance: Mastering the Psychology of Money Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finance Secrets of Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs: Venture Finance Without Venture Capital Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tax and Legal Playbook: Game-Changing Solutions To Your Small Business Questions 2nd Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Whole Body Entrepreneur: A Physical and Emotional Self-Care Bootcamp Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Layperson’s MBA: Skipping the Degree without Skipping the Important Lessons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir of Living Boldly Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Think Like a Billionaire
459 ratings50 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved this book! Lot's of interesting stories and perspectives.. from billionaires that come from all sorts of backgrounds! Learned a lot :) thank you
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Thoughts are not articulated. Bit random in talking and casual
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was very educational. I highly recommend it love ut
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5James stop interrupting, it was so frustrating and rude, and irritating to listen to at times especially when the interviewee was on a roll. Other than that good business insights overall
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thanks to the author for putting this together,, great interviews with top leaders in business
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of my favorite, it’s great to get insight on how people have grown businesses so successfully. It has made me re think my own business and how we will proceed forward.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This has been a deeply enlightening book, one that I’m certainly going to listen to again, at least a few more times! The podcast interviews are genius, and it was great to hear directly from the various titans of business.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Insightful book with loads of strategies and values. The ending chapter stops before James can finish his thought. Only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book again from James, the noticeable thing is that he interviewed billionaires in this book ?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So many successful people coming from many different industries & from all different walks of life, from lower class families to prosperous billionaires their is so much valuable insight I learned here & you can learn too from listening to these interviews over the course of this audiobook! Highly recommended!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Outstanding wish I had listened / read this when I was 20
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Worth the time . Very very informative and insightful book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An amazing read for every would be entrepreneur. I will recommend this book for anyone seeking to broaden their mind. This book contains exactly what is missing in the school education system. What a complementary note to our warped classroom education.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is very long as you can see. It is about different interviews that have been done through out the years by the Author. All these people spoke about things they have done and what they have been through. It is not greatly detailed each step they took. They do speak on the things that is used as a reminder on their lives everyday as to why they do what they do. Everyone reason for why they start and why they keep going may change or it may just remain the same. ??♀️ it depends on the person!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was really great and inspiring! You got to take a peak at the brilliant minds of the the people he interviewed. Don’t forget to take notes
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really insightful book has taught me to reconsider how I have been approaching my challenges and achievements highly recommend
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastically insightful. Worth listening to many times over. Thank you James Altucher.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The book is inspiring and motivational and great in ideas as to what to do as an entrepreneur...
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic!!! James Altucher gives great advice on taking yourself to the next level on becoming an entrepreneur . His find your plus, minus and equals idea is gold. Sarah Blakely interview is worth the price of admission alone!!! So real and hilarious!! If you want to become a entrepreneur and a successful one at that, you must listen to this!!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such detailed interviews. Biggest takeaway: Ready, Fire, AIM! Favorite interview: Ted Leonsis
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the best book I have read. I enjoyed listening to all of the interviews and learning more about the processes billionaires go through. Thank you for such amazing content.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Deep and big thinkers solving our world’s problems and using the profits to make a better world.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Things I loved about this book:
Easy to follow
Variety of interviews with different perspectives and advice
Quality of people James interviewed was high
Pure Gold - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It is the greatest lessons I have ever heard from billionaires. Thank you for interviewing them and sharing.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great read.. would recommend. Interesting format with the podcasts
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is mind-blowing, first I wanted to switch off at the start of the book but I am so glad I did not. It is really insightful to know that the actions a billionaire take is a product of a delibrate pattern of thinking.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book. James really makes me motivated. Finished the book quicker than I expected.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing listen must try for anybody eho wants to achieve big
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing book filled with some amazing people and an amazing interviewer.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Who wouldn’t value having access to one billionaire!! Magnificent book!!!