Famous People Who Failed Before They Became Famous

FAMOUS PEOPLE Who Failed Before They Became Famous MANY FAMOUS PEOPLE HAVE FAILED IN THEIR LIFE BEFORE THEY BECAME SUC- CESSFUL. SOME OF THEM FAILED MORE THAN ONCE. SOME OF THEM FAILED SO BADLY. THE ONLY COMMON THING AMONG THEM ALL IS, "THEY DIDN'T GIVE UP!" AND THAT MADE THEM FAMOUS! HE DIDN'T GIVE UP Didn't Speak Until Age of 4, His teachers labeled him "slow" and "mentally handicapped." AND SUCCEEDED! Developed the general theory of relativity & special theory of relativity, Won Nobel Prize. QUOTES "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert Eiustein "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP Harvard University dropout. First business Traf-O-Data (to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engi- neers) failed. AND SUCCEEDED! Created largest pc software company Microsoft. Consistently ranked #1 in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. QUOTES "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." Bill Gates "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP Collage dropout, Fired from his own company. AND SUCCEEDED! Founded another company NEXT Inc, which apple purchased for $429 million in 1996. Became CEO of Apple again. Known as a "master of innovation" QUOTES "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Steve Jobs "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." SHE DIDN'T GIVE UP Sexual abused in childhood, Became a teenage single mother. Born into poverty. AND SUCCEEDED! Hosted "The Oprah Winfrey Show" which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history. Ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century. Considered as the most influential woman in the world. QUOTES Oprah Winfrey "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate" "Where there is no struggle, there is no strength." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP Decided on a career as a newspaper artist, But nobody wanted to hire him as either an artist or even as an ambulance driver. AND SUCCEEDED! Creator of Mickey Mouse, winner of 22 Academy Awards, Created "The Walt Disney Company" having annual revenue of $45 billion in 2013. QUOTES "If you can dream it, you can do it." PICTURES Wolt Disney "When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP Teachers told him "too stupid to learn anything", Fired from his first two jobs for not being productive. Made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb AND SUCCEEDED! Creator of Mickey Mouse, winner of 22 Academy Awards, Created "The Walt Disney Company" having annual revenue of $45 billion in 2013. QUOTES Thomas "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." Alva Edison "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." SHE DIDN'T GIVE UP Was into poverty and depression primarily due to end of marriage and before she wrote first novel. Twelve publishing houses, rejected to pub- lish her first book, One who accepted (one year later) sugggested Rowling to get a day job, since she had little chance of making money in children's books! AND SUCCEEDED! Wrote harry potter books which bacame best-selling book series in history with sales of 400+ million copies. One of the richest Women in UK (and world) J. K. Rowling QUOTES "It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." tote "Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP Rejected from his dream school, the University of Southern California three times. AND SUCCEEDED! Same university, gave him honorary degree in 1994 and he also became trustee of the university. Created most successful movies like "Shindler's List," "Jaws," "E.T." and "Jurassic Park" QUOTES "There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility." Gteven Spielberg THE LOST WORLD "I'm not really interested in making money." JURASIC PARK SHE DIDN'T GIVE UP Was turned down by a modeling agency and was told that she'd better learn to do secretarial work. First contract with Columbia Pictures expired because they told her she wasn't pretty or talented enough to be an actress. AND SUCCEEDED! One of the most iconic actresses and sex symbols of all time. Also Ameri- can Film Institute ranked her sixth-greatest female star of all time. QUOTES "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot." Marilyn Mouroe "I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP Got denied for Job at Twitter and Facebook in 2009. AND SUCCEEDED! Started a messaging app "WhatsApp" with friend Jan Koum,4 Years later, It became so popular that Facebook paid $16 billion to buy it! QUOTES "Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life's next adventure." Brian Acton "Got denied by Twitter HQ. That's ok. Would have been a long commute." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP Sold only one painting in his lifetime, that to his friend. Spent years in painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness. AND SUCCEEDED! Persistently painted over 900 oil paintings. His paintings are currently considered priceless and among most expensive paintings. QUOTES "I dream of painting and then I paint my dream." Vincent "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" Von Gogh HE DIDN'T GIVE UP Spent 15 years of life creating Vaccume. Went through 5,126 failed proto- types before he made one that worked. AND SUCCEEDED! Created a multi-billion dollar company. Dyson brand is the best-selling vacuum cleaner all over the world now. QUOTES "You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised." James Dyson "Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP He was cut from his high school basketball team. He went home and cried in the privacy of his bedroom. AND SUCCEEDED! Considered the greatest basketball player of all time. Gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. QUOTES "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." Michael Jordan "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. ButI can't accept not trying." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP His first book Carrie was rejected 30 times. He got comments like "We are not interested in science fiction which deals with negative utopias. They do not sell." He threw it in trash but his wife encouraged him to try again. AND SUCCEEDED! His books have sold more than 350 million copies. Many of them have been adapted in films and comic books. Received dozens of awards. QUOTES "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." Stephen King "Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP The first two times he tried to start his company it didn't work out. The very first prototype he created wasn't scalable. The second time the board of directors dissolved the company, They had lost faith in Henry Ford. AND SUCCEEDED! As owner of the Ford Motor Company (his third company), he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. Today, He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. QUOTES Aleury Ford "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelli- gently." HE DIDN'T GIVE UP Developed Pagerank Algorithm to build search engines as a part of collage project. Tried to sell it to several internet companies but everyone rejected. None liked the idea. Google AND SUCCEEDED! Started own company Google Inc and Today it is #1 Internet company. QUOTES Larry Page "If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach." - Larry. "Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems."- Sergey Serpey Brin SOURCE: - www.brainyquote.com - www.christianpost.com/buzzvine/8-successful-and-famous-peo-ple-that-failed-at-first-104556 - www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/successful-people-obstacles_n_3964459.html - www.businessinsider.com/26-successful-people-who-failed-at-first-2012-7?op=D1 ReviewZap www.reviewzap.com