Famous Failures: 10 prominent figures that initially were not successful

Failing when we want to complete a task or achieve a goal can be very discouraging to us. We try over and over again and the product of this determination sometimes isn’t what we expect or desire. Even though this can be the reality and negativity is prominent here, we have to understand that we will not succeed if we do not try in the first place. We have to learn from our mistakes in order to improve our strategies for future endeavors.

Going off this idea, here are some famous people that at first failed at what they wanted to do but eventually got to where they wanted to be.

 

1. Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper for “lacking imagination” and “having no original ideas”  (Source: Business Insider).
2. Albert Einstein was passed over for an engineering job at Toyota and left unemployed (Source: Venture.org).
3. Steve Jobs, was 30-years-old when he was left devastated and depressed after being unceremoniously reomoved from the company he started (Source: Nextshark.com).
4. Marilyn Monroe was dropped by Columbia Pictures because her producer told her that she wasn’t pretty or talented enough to be an actress (Source: Yahoo.com).
5. J.K. Rowling was unemployed, divorced, and raising a daughter on social security while writing the first Harry Potter novel. It was rejected by 12 publishing companies (Source: the guardian.com).
6. Colonel Harland David Sanders couldn’t sell his chicken. More than 1,000 restaurants rejected him until he made his own (Source: yourstory.com).
7. Stephen King‘s first novel, Carrie, was rejected 30 times. He proceeded to throw it in the trash (Source: mentalfloss.com).
8. Oprah Winfrey was demoted in her early job as a journalist at Baltimore’s WJZ-TV but a couple years later, her talk show was the main one for 25 years (Source: huffintonpost.com).
9. Henry Ford was a failure at three businesses before finally succeeding with Ford Motor Company at age 53 (Source: todaymade.com).
10. Lucille Ball had many early films that were failed and considered “B” movies. Eventually, she became the star of the show “I Love Lucy” (Source: huffingtonpost.com).

 

Thanks for reading. Stay Positive!

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