The Genius who had got success out of the past failures.

 

Bill Gates

First time, he had come into prominence with the computer  that he made just after having dropped out of Harvard. His partner Paul Allen had called it “Traf-O-Data”

 

Walt Disney

His first job was journalism. He was fired shortly, because his boss had thought that he had not any imagination or any good ideas.

 

Stephen King

The first book written by King, the master of Horror literature had been refused by 30 different printing houses.

 

Vincent Van Gogh

In his lifetime, he was one of the least earning painters. Even he was sometimes hungry. But today one of his paintings is worth millions of dollars.

 

Luciano Pavarotti

One of the brightest starts of Opera had participated in auditions in Turkey but he had been disqualified.

 

Einstein

Zurich Polytechnic University had no idea that Einstein, whom he did not accept as a student, one day could become a physicist who would change our view of the world

 

Jack London

American writer Jack London’s first story was refused by 600 publishing houses.

 

Henry Ford

He went bankrupt five times before setting up the Ford Motor Company.

 

Wright Brothers

Orville and the Wilbur Wright brothers are the inventors of the aircraft as we know it today. They had made hundreds of horrible experiences before creating the first flying machine.

 

Soichiro Honda

Honda’s founder, Soichiro Honda, was not accepted for a job when he applied to the Toyota Motor.

 

Winston Churchill

He won the Nobel Prize and he became the Prime Minister of Britain two times.. But in the school he had never had success in the classroom.

 

Charlie Chaplin

None of studios in Hollywood studio accepted him as they didn’t think his acting and his projects would sell.

 

Emily Dickinson

Dickinson, one of the most popular writers in the world, became famous only after she died. The poems she published in her life time are not more than a dozen.

 

Abraham Lincoln

After all the federal and presidential elections that he had lost during his lifetime, he also returned back from the first war he had fought as president of the USA, without any medal or any praise.

 

Akio Morita

Sony’s founder, Morita, has his biggest disappointment with Sony’s first product. He was not able to sell 100 units of the rice cooker.

 

Louisa May Alcott

The author of “Little Women” had been raised by her family telling her “ Do not try in vain, you can do nothing  other than working as a maid”

 

Mozart

Mozart, who started composing at the age of five, was struggling to get the attention of the aristocratic class throughout his life.

 

Oprah Winfrey

Winfrey, the world’s richest television star, had been fired from the first television channel she had worked, with the excuse that she was not suitable for the screen.

 

Elvis Presley

The manager of Grand Ole Opry, a radio program that had been broadcasting since 1920s, advised him to “Stick to driving a truck, because you’ll never make it as a singer.”

 

Beethoven

He had faced the risk of being kicked out of the music school as he was not able to play violin.

 

Michael Jordan

Jordan, one of the giants of basketball, had been known as one of the worst players in his high school basketball team.

 

J.K. Rowling

Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, was an low-income earning amateur writer, of middle-lower class, who had been struggling to take care of her children until that series.

Source: Genç Gelişim