Famous People That Failed

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Famous People That Failed

Here is a list of famous people that failed

Famous people that failed #1Colonel Sanders : Yeah you know the guy that founded KFC. He actually started his dream when he was 65 years old! He got a check for 105 dollars for his social security and got mad. So he “took the bull by its horns and did something about it! He thought restaurants would want his fried chicken recipe, and use the recipe, sales would increase and he would get a percentage of the money. He drove around the country knocking on doors and sleeping in his car, while he wore his white suit.

Guess how many people said no til he got one yes? 1009 times!!!

Famous people that failed #2Walt Disney: Yep the guy that who gave us Disney

World, Disney land and Mickey Mouse. His first animation company went bankrupt. He was fired by a news editor because he lacked imagination. It is believed by some that he was turned down 302 times before he got the financing for creating Disney World!

Famous people that failed #3 Albert Eistein: He did not talk til the age of four and did not read til he was seven. His parents and teachers thought he was mentally handicapped. But hey he only turned out to win a Nobel prize and be the face of modern physics no great success there right NOT!!

Famous people that failed #4 Richard Branson:

The billionaire mogul of Virgin he had his share of failures. Do you remember Virgin Cola or Virgin credit cards? You don’t? I am sure he does though he lost hundreds of millions of dollars but did not let failure stop him.

Famous people that failed # 5Mark Cuban: The billionaire owner of NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. He got rich when he sold his company to Yahoo for 5.9 billion in stock. He admits he was terrible at his early jobs. His parents wanted him to have a normal job, so to please them he tried carpentry but he hated being one. He tried being a short order cook but he was a terrible one. He waited tables problem there was he could not open a bottle of wine. This is what he says of his failures,

“I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter how many times you failed,” Cuban says. “You only have to be right once. I tried to sell powdered milk. I was an idiot lots of times, and I learned from them all.”

Famous people that failed #6 Vincent Van Gogh:  Are you aware that he only sold

one painting in his entire lifetime? Just one that he sold to a friend. But yet he kept pursuing his dreams. Now a days everyone wants to buy one, his most expensive painting is valued at 142.7 million dollars.

Famous people that failed #7 Theodor Seuss Giesel: You might recognize his pen name more then you do his real name. Dr. Seuss gave us Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham along with countless others. He first thought he would not succeed. He was rejected by 27 different publishers. His first book is To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

Famous people that failed #8 John Grisham: He started out as a lawyer that loved

to write. His first book A Time to Kill took three years to write. The book was rejected 28 times until he got one for a 5,000 copy print. He has since sold over 250 million copies of his books.

Famous people that failed #9 David Wood: Failed at making his financial dreams of making money in Network Marketing. Before he started becoming extremely successful with making money online. He got tired of the guru’s getting all the money so he and David Sharpe created
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Famous people that failed #10 YOUR NAME: I can hardly wait to hear your success

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I sure am glad that these guy’s did not give up aren’t you?

Its your turn to not give up the world is counting on you!