Here are some amazing stories of conquering adversity and persevering to get where you want in life. These famous people had to work hard a endure failure to get where they wanted to be in life.

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5 Amazing Success
Stories That Started Out
As Failures
By David Kiger
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Stephen King

2. + The lives of the elite and successful usually inspire us to
strive for more of ourselves. We want to live in their homes,
drive their cars and run business like the ones that made
them rich and famous. Everything seems to be perfect
from the perspective of those who don’t know the real
stories behind the names we today associate with
achievement. The truth is, the reality sometimes hides a
story of constant failure and rejection that was met with
perseverance and resilience.
Here are some amazing stories of conquering adversity
and persevering to get where you want in life. These
famous people had to work hard a endure failure to get
where they wanted to be in life.

3. + Henry Ford
Is hard to think about anything else other than success and
wealth when one mentions the name Henry Ford. The Ford Motor
Company is one of the most successful automotive companies of
all times, and Henry Ford is considered one of America’s finance
titans. As unbelievable as it may be, Henry Ford dealt with his
share of failure before we struck gold. His first company, the
Detroit Automobile Company went bankrupt and later it was
reorganized as the Henry Ford Company. Just one year after it
was founded, Ford left after disputes with his financial backers
and accepted his second defeat. The company eventually
became the Cadillac Automobile Company. Henry Ford went
ahead and gave it a third try and founded the Ford Motor
Company in 1903 and well… we all know how that worked out.
Henry Ford’s introduction of the Model T automobile
revolutionized transportation and American industry.

4. + Walt Disney
Everyone knows the story of how Walt Disney was fired by the
editor of the Kansas City Star paper in 1919 from his job
because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas”, but
that was not his only failure; he later acquired Laugh-O-Gram,
an animation studio that went bankrupt due to Disney’s
inability to handle the company finances correctly and thus
getting the studio in deep debt. His ability to learn from his
failures and to overcome adversity is what made Walt Disney
as successful as we all know. All of these mistakes helped him
pave the way to become the idol of millions whose lives have
been touched by the message of his creations and the
wonderful ramifications of the work he did throughout his
career.

5. + Thomas Edison
Edison is responsible for holding 1,093 US patents to his
name as well as many others in different countries around the
world. An accomplished businessman like Edison was no
stranger to failure, even from an early age his own teachers
dubbed him “too stupid to learn anything” and he was laid off
from his first couple of jobs for not being as productive as they
expected. Thomas Edison embraced failure as was never
deter by it. He firmly believed that failing only meant
discovering the wrong way of doing something, which he
found to be useful information no matter what. Edison is the
embodiment of resilience and hard work in the face of
adversity.

6. + Stephen King.
King is definitely the most successful writer of our generation with
more than 350 million books sold. As a businessman, few are
able to match King’s accomplishments. He has written 54 novels,
more than 200 short stories and many of them have ended up in
the big screen and not without great recognition.
One of the things most people don’t know about King, is the fact
that one of his most successful titles, Carrie, was rejected about
30 times before it was published. The story tells that he even
went as far as throwing his manuscript into the garbage out of
sheer frustration.
Stephen King’s story was one of a man working as an English
teacher and selling short stories to make ends meet. Through
perseverance, hard work and a supportive wife, he was able to
reap the fruits of his hard work and become the inspiration he is
today.

7. + Colonel Sanders
The founder of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) did not even begin to
push his fried chicken recipe to restaurants until he was 62. He was
shut down 1,009 times and told his product wasn’t special. Sanders
worked many odd jobs and did a little bit of everything, but he
continued to perfect his recipe until finally in 1952, he started to sell
his chicken in a roadside restaurant. The first KFC opened in Salt
Lake City, Utah, and its sales tripled within the first year, all thanks to
the colonels amazing chicken recipe.
The expansion of the company
was something unheard off and
at 74 years old; the colonel sold
his company for $2 million
dollars but retained the rights to
the Canadian franchises.
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