James Altucher has founded 20 different companies (at last count), ranging from hedge funds to dating websites. He has sold a few for $10 million or more but admits that most of his ventures have failed.<\/p>\n
This guy has risen from the ashes so many times he’d make a phoenix jealous.<\/p>\n
But failure isn’t as glorious as that analogy might paint it. It’s a gritty, dirty, a bottomless pit.<\/p>\n
“Failure really sucks,” Altucher said. “When you fail it’s not like you say, ‘OK, I failed now. I’m here at the bottom.’ There’s no bottom. It feels infinite. It feels like it’s never going to end. It’s just going to get worse and worse.”<\/p>\n
But, Altucher, who has been called “the Oprah of the internet” for his sage advice, explains that you can’t just get sucked into sitting at the bottom and wallowing in it.<\/p>\n
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