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Big Names Who Have Failed Before Becoming Successful

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The following article will help you deal with your own failures if you are currently letting them get you down. Just remember this article when things aren't going so well.

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So you have tried something and you have failed. Maybe numerous times. You may have been told you have no talent, aren't cut out for "this business" or are never going to "make it in this line of work".

Well don't be discouraged. The following are stories of other people who were told the same thing or something similar and went on to be major successes! You might just recognize a
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The Vice President of Columbia told this actor that he was never going to make it in the business. The actor? - Harrison Ford

His first book was rejected by 12 publishing houses and sixteen agents. - John Grisham

Turned down by a recording company saying "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out" They were talking about the Beatles

Was told by his father that he would amount to nothing and be a disgrace to himself and his family - Charles Darwin

Told by a music teacher "as a composer he is hopeless" - Beethoven

Was told that "he couldn't sing at all" Enrico Caruso

Fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas" - Walt Disney

Were told by Publishers that "anthologies didn't sell" and the book was "too positive"

Rejected a total of 140 times. The book? Chicken Soup for the Soul. It now has 65 different titles and has sold over 80 million copies all over the world.

Told by a teacher he was "too stupid to learn anything" Thomas Edison

Failed the sixth grade - Winston Churchill

Wasn't able to speak until he was almost 4 years old and his teachers said he would "never amount to much" - Albert Einstein

Did poorly in school and failed at running the family farm - Isaac Newton

Was not allowed to wait on customers in the store he worked in because "he didn't have enough sense" - F. W. Woolworth

Was cut from the high school basketball team, went home, locked himself in his room and cried - Michael Jordan

Producer told her she was "unattractive" and could not act - Marilyn Monroe

This book was rejected 18 times before it was published. It then sold over one million copies the first year. The book was Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Auditioned for All My Children and got rejected - Julia Roberts

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Rejected a total of 140 times. The book? Chicken Soup for the Soul. It now has 65 different titles and has sold over 80 million copies all over the world.

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Jack Canfield talks about that in the secret.
 

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Pretty neat to know that stuff. Thanks for the post!
 
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I think all successful people have been filed in their life ....Here are some famous millionaires /billionaires goes bankrupt: Michael Jackson, Larry King
Donald Trump , Mike Tyson ,Marvin Gaye
 

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I like this one he best. "Was not allowed to wait on customers in the store he worked in because "he didn't have enough sense" - F. W. Woolworth"
 

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The story of Sylvester Stallone and Rocky is amazing (although I havent even watched the movie..)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywuse55qU2A]YouTube - Tony Robbins tells Rocky story[/ame]
 
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This encouraged me. It made me think of what these people did and how I could do the same if I worked enough at it! Thanks! :smug2:
 

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Rejected by 28 record companies,she was finally signed by Maverick Records -- one of the previous firms who passed on her. The artist? Alanis Morrisette. Her first album for the label? Jagged Little Pill. How many copies sold worldwide? 35 million.
 
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Another one..an author, passed up by a lot of publishing houses, told her books were crap, and they would never sell. Author of Interview with a Vampire by Ann Rice. She also received a lot of apologies when her book became a best seller.
 

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The easiest way to fail is to quit.
 

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Rejected by 28 record companies,she was finally signed by Maverick Records -- one of the previous firms who passed on her. The artist? Alanis Morrisette. Her first album for the label? Jagged Little Pill. How many copies sold worldwide? 35 million.


and she still got screwed! They left all great songs on that album if split up to 2-3 hits per album she could have milked it for a few more albums and 10's millions more sold. That was the model back then. Sell people 12 crap songs for 1-2 hits for $15 bucks.
 
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