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“the person who never made a mistake never made anything” Bruce Lee
Before becoming America’s favourite housewife, Lucille Ball was known in many Hollywood circles as a failed actress and “B-Movie queen”
Abraham Lincoln had 12 major failures before he was elected president of the United States.
Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.
Beethoven’s music teacher once said of him “as a composer he is hopeless.”
When Thomas Edison was a boy his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. He tried more than 2,000 experiments before he created the first successful light bulb.
F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employer would not let him wait on customers because he “didn’t have enough sense.”
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas. His first cartoon production company went bankrupt.
Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade.
Steven Spielberg dropped out of high school in his sophomore year. He was persuaded to come back and placed in a learning disabled class. He lasted a month and dropped out of school forever.
Einstein’s parents thought he was mentally retarded. His grades in school were so poor that a teacher asked him to quit, saying, ‘Einstein, you will never amount to anything.'”
Viewing Fred Astaire’s 1928 screen test, a producer noted: “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Balding. Can dance a little.”
In 1947, one year into her contract, Marilyn Monroe was dropped by 20th Century-Fox because Darryl Zanuck thought she was unattractive.
Barbra Streisand made her stage debut at nineteen in a show that closed after one performance.
John Grisham’s first novel was rejected by sixteen agents and a dozen publishing houses.
