THE 24 SUPER SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE WHO FACED THEIR SHARE OF FAILURE BEFORE SUCCEEDING
Its not that everyone who is on top today got there with success after
success. More often than not, those who history best remembers were faced with
numerous obstacles that forced them to work harder and show more determination
than others. Keep these super successful people in mind and remind yourself that
sometimes failure is just the first step towards success.
1. Henry Ford: While Ford is today known for his innovative
assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn't an instant success. In fact,
his early businesses failed and left him broke five times before he founded the
successful Ford Motor Company.
2. R. H. Macy: Most people are familiar with this large
department store chain, but Macy didn't always have it easy. Macy started seven
failed business before finally hitting big with his store in New York City.
3. F. W. Woolworth: Some may not know this name today, but
Woolworth was once one of the biggest names in department stores in the U.S.
Before starting his own business, young Woolworth worked at a dry goods store
and was not allowed to wait on customers because his boss said he lacked the
sense needed to do so.
4. Soichiro Honda: The billion-dollar business that is Honda
began with a series of failures and fortunate turns of luck. Honda was turned
down by Toyota Motor Corporation for a job after interviewing for a job as an
engineer, leaving him jobless for quite some time. He started making scooters
of his own at home, and spurred on by his neighbors, finally started his own
business.
5. Akio Morita: You may not have heard of Morita but you've
undoubtedly heard of his company, Sony. Sony's first product was a rice cooker
that unfortunately didn't cook rice so much as burn it, selling less than 100
units. This first setback didn't stop Morita and his partners as they pushed
forward to create a multi-billion dollar company.
6. 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. While this early idea
didn't work, Gates' later work did, creating the global empire that is
Microsoft.
7. Harland David Sanders: Perhaps better known as Colonel
Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, Sanders had a hard time selling his
chicken at first. In fact, his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009
times before a restaurant accepted it.
8. Walt Disney: Today Disney rakes in billions from
merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney himself
had a bit of a rough start. He was fired by a newspaper editor because,
"he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." After that, Disney
started a number of businesses that didn't last too long and ended with
bankruptcy and failure. He kept plugging along, however, and eventually found a
recipe for success that worked.
9. Albert Einstein: Most of us take Einstein's name as
synonymous with genius, but he didn't always show such promise. Einstein did
not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his
teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and
anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance
to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer, but
most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the
Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics.
10. Robert Goddard: Goddard today is hailed for his research and
experimentation with liquid-fueled rockets, but during his lifetime his ideas
were often rejected and mocked by his scientific peers who thought they were
outrageous and impossible. Today rockets and space travel don't seem
far-fetched at all, due largely in part to the work of this scientist who
worked against the feelings of the time.
11. Robert Sternberg: This big name in psychology received a “C”
in his first college introductory psychology class with his teacher telling him
that, "there was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was
obvious there would not be another." Ouch! Sternberg showed him, however,
graduating from Stanford with exceptional distinction in psychology, summa cum
laude, and Phi Beta Kappa and eventually becoming the President of the American
Psychological Association.
12. Thomas Edison: In his early years, teachers told Edison he
was "too stupid to learn anything." Work was no better, as he was
fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Even as an
inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.
Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design that
worked.
13. Orville and Wilbur Wright: These brothers battled depression
and family illness before starting the bicycle shop that would lead them to
experimenting with flight. After numerous attempts at creating flying machines,
several years of hard work, and tons of failed prototypes, the brothers finally
created a plane that could get airborne and stay there.
14. Winston Churchill: This Nobel Prize-winning, twice-elected
Prime Minster of the United Kingdom wasn't always as well regarded as he is
today. Churchill struggled in school and failed the sixth grade. After school
he faced many years of political failures, as he was defeated in every election
for public office until he finally became the Prime Minister at the ripe old
age of 62.
15. Abraham Lincoln: While today he is remembered as one of the
greatest leaders of our nation, Lincoln's life wasn't so easy. In his youth he
went to war a captain and returned a private (if you're not familiar with
military ranks, just know that private is as low as it goes.) Lincoln didn't
stop failing there, however. He started numerous failed business and was
defeated in numerous runs he made for public office.
16. Oprah Winfrey: Most people know Oprah as one of the most
iconic faces on TV as well as one of the richest and most successful women in
the world. Oprah faced a hard road to get to that position, however, enduring a
rough and often abusive childhood as well as numerous career setbacks including
being fired from her job as a television reporter because she was "unfit
for tv."
17. Dick Cheney: This recent Vice President and businessman made
his way to the White House but managed to flunk out of Yale University, not
once, but twice. Former President George W. Bush joked with Cheney about this
fact, stating, "So now we know –if you graduate from Yale, you become
president. If you drop out, you get to be vice president."
18. Theodor Seuss Geseil: Today nearly every child has read The
Cat in the Hat or Green Eggs and Ham, yet 27 different publishers rejected Dr.
Seuss's first book To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
19. Charles Schultz: Schultz's Peanuts comic strip has had
enduring fame, yet this cartoonist had every cartoon he submitted rejected by
his high school yearbook staff. Even after high school, Schultz didn't have it
easy, applying and being rejected for a position working with Walt Disney.
21. Steven Spielberg: While today Spielberg's name is synonymous
with big budget, he was rejected from the University of Southern California
School of Theater, Film and Television three times. He eventually attended
school at another location, only to drop out to become a director before
finishing. Thirty-five years after starting his degree, Spielberg returned to
school in 2002 to finally complete his work and earn his BA.
22. Stephen King: The first book by this author, the iconic thriller
Carrie, received 30 rejections, finally causing King to give up and throw it in
the trash. His wife fished it out and encouraged him to resubmit it, and the
rest is history, with King now having hundreds of books published the
distinction of being one of the best-selling authors of all time.
23. J. K. Rowling: Rowling may be rolling in a lot of Harry
Potter dough 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. Rowling went from depending on
welfare to survive to being one of the richest women in the world in a span of
only five years through her hard work and determination.
24. Michael Jordan: Most people wouldn't believe that a man
often lauded as the best basketball player of all time was actually cut from
his high school basketball team. Luckily, Jordan didn't let this setback stop
him from playing the game and he has stated, "I have missed more than 9,000
shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been
entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and
over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
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