Famous Failures

As I challenge you and prepare your mind to pick up the gauntlet and start impacting your world, let me introduce you to some of the worlds most successful people who failed at one point or another but came back up to become as successful as they can be.

Michael Jordan – After being cut from his high school basketball team, he went home, locked himself and cried.

 

The Beatles – Rejected by Decca Recording Studios, who said “ We don’t like their sound” – “They have no future in the show business”

 

Eminem – A high school dropout, whose personal struggles with drugs and poverty culminated in an unsuccessful suicide attempt.

 

Steve Jobs – At 30 years old he was left devastated abd depressed after being unceremoniously removed from the company he stated.

 

Walt Disney – Fired from a newspaper for “Lacking Imagination” and “Having no Original Ideas”.

 

Oprah Winfrey – Was demoted from her job as a news anchor because she… “Wasn’t fit for television.”

 

Albert Einstein – He wasn’t able to speak until he was almost 4 years old and his teachers said he would “never amount to much”

 

Now, considering the impact these people have made to their generation and the entire world, what would you say about your own failures? “What people or the experts say about you is none of your business! Because “if you’ve never failed, you probably have never tried anything new.”