FAMOUS FAILURES
Failed in business
three times and
failed campaigning
seven times prior to
becoming President
'f the United States
Bill Gates was a
Harvard University
dropout and his first
business, Traf-O-Data ,
was a failure.
She had a rough and abusive
childhood and was fired from her
job as a reporter because she
was "unfit for TV.
Fired from a newspaper for
"lacking imagination" and
having "no original ideas".
Stephen King's first book,
Carrie was rejected 30
times. He proceeded to
throw it in the trash.
He did not speak until he
was four years old. His
parents thought he was
"sub-normal." He was
expelled from school and
his teachers described
him as •mentally slow,"
Thomas Edison's
teachers told him
he was 'too stupid
to learn anything."
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Rejected by Decca Recodring studios,
who said "we don't like their sound"
"They have no future in show business"
Henry Ford was a failure
at three businesses
before finally succeeding
with Ford Motor
Company at age 53
Soichiro Honda was passed over for
an engineering job at Toyota and left
unemployed.
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Michael Jordan was cut
from his high school
basketball team for a
"lack of skill."
At 30 years old he was
left devastated and
depressed after being
unceremonoiusly
removed from the
company he started.
Marilyn Monroe was
dropped by 20th
Century-Fox after one
year because her
producer told that she
wasn't pretty or
talented enough to be
an actress.
Colonel Hardland David
Sanders (KFC) couldn't
sell his chicken.More
than 1 ,OOO restaurants
rejected him.
J X. Rowling was
unemployed, divorced
and raising a daughter
on social security while
writing the first Harry
potter novel. Her novel
"Harry Potter was
rejected by 12
publishing houses.
IF YOU YOU HAVE NEVER FAILED
YOUVE NEVER TRIED ANYTHING NEW
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