2. Elvis Presley was sacked after his first
performance.
He was told to go back to driving trucks because he would never
make it as a singer.
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3. The Beatles were dropped by their record label.
Decca Recording studios, said "we don't like their sound, and... They
have no future in show business."
4. Mark Zuckerberg was a college 'Geek'
He is also colour blind which is why the main Facebook
colour is blue.
5. Oprah Winfrey was told she was "unfit for
TV."
At age 22, she was fired from her job as a television reporter. She called
it the “the first and worst failure of her TV career”
6. Michael Jordan was dropped from
his high school basket ball team.
Afterwards he went home and cried in the privacy of his bedroom.
7. Branson in front of a large photo of his commercial SpaceShipTwo.
Richard Branson was seen as stupid and lazy in school.
8. J. K. Rowling was a divorced single
mother on welfare before writing Harry
Potter
9. Michael Dell, founder and chairman of
Dell Computer Corp., was a dishwasher
He worked at a Chinese restaurant earning $2.30 an hour.
10. Macy Gray, Faith Hill, Pink, and Shania Twain
These divas all worked at McDonalds before they became famous.
11. Mr. Walter Disney was fired for having
no imagination.
In 1927 he was told that a giant mouse on screen would terrify
women.
12. Albert Einstein's parents and teachers
thought he was mentally handicapped.
He couldn't speak until he was 4, and couldn't read until he was 7.
