James Altucher Quotes

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

When you have your own business, you don't mind failing if it makes you better in the long run.

You make mistakes that you want to learn from, that you don't want to happen again, and that's what I try to do.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.

I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. I think it is important to learn from one's mistakes.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.

Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.