The document describes the failures and rejections faced by many famous and successful individuals in various fields such as Colonel Sanders, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Richard Branson, Vincent Van Gogh, Theodor Seuss Geisel, John Grisham, Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer, The Beatles, Michael Jordan, Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Fred Astaire, and Oprah Winfrey in their early careers and lives prior to finding success. Many of these individuals faced numerous rejections of ideas, works, or lack of belief in them by others only to go on and achieve great success and change their respective industries.

2. …failures

3. 1
Colonel Sanders

4. Colonel Sanders

5. Colonel Sanders
 He started his dream at 65 years old.
 He thought restaurant owners would
love his fried chicken recipe.
 He drove around the country knocking
on doors.

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Walt Disney

7. Walt Disney

8. Walt Disney
 Rough start.
 He was sacked by a newspaper editor.
 Bankruptcy and failure.
 He found a recipe for success that
worked.

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Albert Einstein

10. Albert Einstein

11. Albert Einstein
 Did not speak until 4.
 Did not read until 7.
 His parents and teachers thought he
was mentally handicapped.

12. 4
Richard Branson

13. Richard Branson

14. Richard Branson
 Billionaire of Virgin company.
 Lost hundreds of millions of dollars.
 Rent his private island for 53.000 dollars
per night.

15. 5
Vincent Van Gogh

16. Vincent Van Gogh

17. Vincent Van Gogh
 Sold only one painting in his life.

18. 6
Theodor Seuss
Giesel

19. Theodor Seuss Giesel

20. Theodor Seuss Giesel

21. Theodor Seuss Giesel
 Famous writer of children books.
 27 different publishers rejected his first
book.

22. 7
John Grisham

23. John Grisham

24. John Grisham
 He was a lawyer.
 First book was rejected 28 times.
 Sold 250 million total copies of his
books.

25. 8
Steven Spielberg

26. Steven Spielberg

27. Steven Spielberg
 Rejected from University of Theatre,
Film and Television three times.
 Attended school in another location.
 He did not finished it.
 Become a director before finishing.
 In 2002 returned to school to finally
complete his work and earn his degree.

28. 9
Stephen King

29. Stephen King

30. Stephen King
 First book “Carrie” received 30
rejections.
 Throw it in the trash.
 His wife fished it out and encouraged
him to resubmit it.
 Now he is one of the best-selling
authors of all time.

31. 10
Stephenie Meyer

32. Stephenie Meyer

33. Stephenie Meyer
 The author of Twilight saga said the
inspiration from the book came from a
dream.
 Finished it in 3 months.
 Never intended to publish it, a friend
suggested she should.
 She wrote 15 letters to literary agencies,
five didn’t reply, nine rejected, one gave
her a chance.

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The Beatles

35. The Beatles

36. The Beatles
 When they were just starting out, a
recording company told them no.
 They do not like their sound and the
guitar music is on the way out.

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Michael Jordan

38. Michael Jordan

39. Michael Jordan
 He has missed more than 9.000 shots in
his career.
 He has lost almost 300 games.
 He said: I have failed over and over and
over again in my life, and that is why I
succeed."

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Thomas Edison

41. Thomas Edison

42. Thomas Edison
 When he was a child, teachers told him
he was "too stupid to learn anything.“
 He was sacked from his first two jobs for
not being productive enough.
 Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful
attempts before inventing the light bulb.

43. 14
Charlie Chaplin

44. Charlie Chaplin

45. Charlie Chaplin
 His act was rejected by Hollywood.
 They thought he was too nonsensical to
ever sell.

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Fred Astaire

47. Fred Astaire

48. Fred Astaire

49. Fred Astaire
 In his first screen test, the testing
director of MGM noted that Astaire,
"Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can
dance a little.“
 Astaire went on to become an incredibly
successful actor, singer and dancer.

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Oprah Winfrey

51. Oprah Winfrey

52. Oprah Winfrey
 She is one of the most iconic faces on
TV as well as one of the richest and
most successful women in the world.
 She had a hard child life.
 In her early days as a reporter, she has
been sacked from her job as a television
reporter because she was "unfit for tv."

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