Famous Personalities Who Failed At First
Thomas Edison
Edison was fired for being unproductive in his early
years. Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000
unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.
Oriville and Wilbur Wright
After numerous attempts at creating flying
machines, several years of hard work, and tons of
failed prototypes, the brothers finally created a
plane.
PUBLIC FIGURES
Winston Churchill
This Nobel Prize-winning, twice-elected Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom struggled in school
and failed the sixth grade. After many years of
political failures, finally became the Prime Minister
at the ripe old age of 62.
Abrahim Lincoln
After Lincoln failed many times in business and
defeated in numerous runs, he became a greatest
leader.
Oprah Wintrey
Opran faced a rought and abusive childhood as well
as numerous career setbacks in her life to become
one of the most iconic faces on TV.
WRITERS AND ARTISTS
Steven Spielberg
Spielberg's was rejected from the University of
Southern California School of Theater, Film and
Television three times. Thirty-five years after
starting his degree, spielberg returned to school in
2002 to finally complete his work and earn his BA.
J.K. Rowling
Rowling may be rolling in a lot of Harry Potter doug
today, but before she published the series of novels
she was nearly penniless, severely depressed,
divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while
attending school and writing a novel.
ATHLETES
Michael Jordan
Most people wouldn't believe that a man often
louded as the best basketball player of all time was
actually cut from his high school basketball team,
'I have failed over and over and over again in my
life. And that is why I succeed'.
BUSINESS GURUS
Henry Ford
Ford is known for his innovable success but he
failed five times before he founded the FORD
Company.
R.H. Macy
Before the success of MACY, he failed in seven
businesses and finally succeeded with his new
store.
Soichira Honda
The billion-dollar business, that is Honda, started
initially with a series of failures. He started making
scooters of his own at home and spurred on by his
neighbors, finally started his own business.
Bill Gates
Gates didn't seem like a shoe-in for success after
dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first
business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
called Traf-O-Data.
Harland David Sanders
Sanders founded KFC and his famous secret
chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a
restaurant accepted it.
Walt Disney
Walt Disney had a bit of a rough start and he was
fired by a newspaper editor because, 'he lacked
imagination and had no good ideas'. He kept
plugging along, however, and eventually found a
recipe for success that worked.
SCIENTISTS
Albert Einstein
Einstein did not speak until he was four and did
not read until he was seven, and his teachers and
parents thought he was mentally handicapped, slow
and anti-social. But he caught on pretty well in the
end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face
of modern physics.
Charles Darwin
In his early years, Darwin gave up on having a
medical career and was considered as a lazy boy.
Now, Darwin is well-known for his scientific studies.
Isaac Newton
Newton failed so may times in his school days and
was sent off to Cambridge where he finally
blossomed into the scholar we know today
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