Lucille Ball
Dismissed from drama school with a note that read "Wasting your time", she is too shy to put her best foot forward
- One of the most popular and influential stars in America during her lifetime
- One of Hollywood's longest careers
Turned down by the Decca recording company who said "We don't like their sound and their guitar music is on the way out"
- One of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music
- The group came to be perceived as the embodiment of progressive ideals, seeing their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.
A failed soldier, farmer and a real estate agent, at 38 years old went to work for his father as a handy man
- 18th President of United States
- military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America
Cut from the high school basket ball team, he went home locked himself in his room and cried
- By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time
A teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything and he should go into a field where he might succeed by the virtue of his pleasant personality
- American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb
- Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany
- Founded the company Edison Electric which is now General Electric (GE)
Walt Disney
Fired from a newspaper because he lacked Imagination and had no original ideas
- American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur,entertainer, international icon and philanthropist
- He and his staff created a number of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse
- He has won 26Academy Awards out of 59 nominations (highest by any individual)
His fiance died, he failed in business twice, he had a nervous breakdown and he was defeated in 8 elections
- 16th President of the United States
- He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery
If you have never failed, you have never lived !
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