James Altucher Quotes

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is, ‘No does not mean never. It just means not yet.’ So not every audition, you’re gonna get but as long as you know it wasn’t meant for you then you’ll get the next one.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

Better to try and fail than not to try at all

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures."

When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.