Comments on: I Get No Respect http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/ Ideas for a World Out of Balance Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Jo M. http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/#comment-43097 Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:36:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=5023#comment-43097 Great post. Also: Phyllis Diller got into comedy when she was middle aged.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/#comment-30788 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:28:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=5023#comment-30788 Wow,

It’s a good time to laugh indeed. 

Likewise … in mid 40’s here.  Left a very promising corporate career over a dozen years ago to pursue a dream. Started a company, then started another one only to blew up, or, rather die slowly of a thousand cuts.  Friends back in the corporate worlds are now VP’s, Presidents, or senior director’s and I am just trying not to be out on the street.  It’s time to pivot yet again. That seem to be the buzz word these days.  Pivot.   Full of regret but probably would do it again anyway. It’s like a calling, or a siren song. Anyway, like they say, things that does not kill you will only make you stronger.    I guess I am in good company here.  It’s good to know I am not the only one.  Cheers to Rodney Dangerfield.

]]> By: jojo http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/#comment-30761 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:51:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=5023#comment-30761 Each do is new day ahead. Clean Slate. Just like something can be a hit… billionaires can also lose everything.  “There is no future. There is no past.  I live this moment as my last… ” (Rent) 

But what’s interesting is from the dark comes the light too… without the dark shit comedians wouldn’t exist.  Most all of the funniest ones come from a dark dark place and view. 
“I don’t tell jokes to make people laugh. I tell them to not let me cry”. 

]]> By: Remus http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/#comment-30708 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:02:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=5023#comment-30708 Can you please tell me is this the book?
“Last Words”?
http://www.amazon.ca/Last-Words-George-Carlin/dp/1439172951/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330055888&sr=8-1

]]> By: Sean http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/#comment-30574 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:02:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=5023#comment-30574 I’m 42 and just learned to surf!  Took me over a year of on and off persistence to be able to ride a half decent wave.  I’ve wanted to surf ever since I was a teenager.  And I see lots of people older than me – both men and women!

]]> By: LB http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/#comment-30559 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:43:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=5023#comment-30559 “Hey Wang, what’s with the pictures? It’s a parking lot!”
“Oh look at this hat…great hat. I bet you buy a hat like this and you get a free bowl of soup. Oh, looks great on YOU though”

So many great lines from Dangerfield, Murray and Chase in the movie. Thanks for triggering my memory and enjoy the movie James!

“Young cinderella, tears in his eyes I guess as he lines up this final shot…..” :)

]]> By: Jlcollinsnh http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/#comment-30543 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:56:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=5023#comment-30543 Hi Abby….

just hit the “like” button on your comment.  This is something I’ve pondered at some length.  

perhaps my favorite quote and as close to a motto as I personally have is this:

“If you reach for a star you might not get one.  But you won’t come up with a handful of dirt either.”  — Leo Burnett

Looking back over my 60+ years I’m content to have reached.  I never got one, but overall the end results have been pretty damn good and the journey’s been more fun.

]]> By: Joe Singer http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/#comment-30541 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:57:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=5023#comment-30541 I meant “EASY MONEY”   not “take the money and run”.  Althought that is a great moview as well but with woody allen and not rodney.

]]> By: Joe Singer http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/#comment-30540 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:53:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=5023#comment-30540 You should also watch ” take the money and run”

I love Rodney….great post james

]]> By: James Altucher http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/02/i-get-no-respect/#comment-30535 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:39:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=5023#comment-30535  Abby, thats a great point. But then the question is: are they happier having tried, or would it have been better off staying an aluminum siding salesman. I have tried many things and failed at many things. In fact, any success is really a sequence of failures punctuated by the occasional success.

I wonder if I had never tried anywhere where would I be? Maybe a computer programmer in Pittsburgh. There’s nothing wrong with that at all. Pittsburgh is a great city. But I would be a different person than i am now and I like where I am now.

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