15 Famous Failures Before Success
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1. Oprah Winfrey
She was fired from her new anchor job because she "wasn't fit for television."
2 Michael Jordan
Cut from his high school basketball team because "he simply didn't have it."
3. Sylvester Stallone
"Life ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."
4. Walt Disney
Ironic, fired for not having an imagination and not having original ideas.
5. Eminem
6. J.K. Rowling
7. Jack Ma
8. Lady Gaga
9. Steven Spielberg
10. Arnold Schwarzenegger
11. The Beatles
10,000 hours of playing in a club in Hamburg, Germany. Wonder where this little factoid came from, well check out Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers."
12. Elvis Presley
13. Lionel Messi
14. Albert Einstein
He was dyslexic.
15. Steve Jobs
... And then he was re-hired by that same company!
BONUS
There is a 16th famous failure that has been left off ...
"He was the back-up to a winless high school football team as a freshman, he wasn't hand-picked for the starting job in college, and he was passed over 198 times by all 32 franchises in the 2000 NFL draft .... New England Patriots quarterback, five-time Super Bowl Champion, and four-time Super Bowl MVP, Tom Brady.
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