James Altucher Quotes

When I was around 25 years old, I lost everything and was a complete dirtbag.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I like movies about failing.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.

A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.

There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over.

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

It's hard to deal with defeat.

I think everyone can relate to that fall from grace - having life change in an instant or having to stand for some of your bad choices, that feeling of 'Nothing is ever going to be good again.'

I sacrificed a lot of things growing up.

I'm a target on and off the court. I've done some things I regret. But being a target is rough.

I've had many ups and downs before, and I think it's always darkest before dawn.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

I've lost a lot in life because of my nature.

I've had my share of losing.

I think once I had lived life, once I had failed enough in this lifetime and got back up a thousand times from failing, I really connected to the blues.

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

The journey towards success is not always easy or upwards.

Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.

I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.