Learn how successful people went to their goal, despite the flood of failed failures.
Many people lose their hands when there are failures. Forcing oneself to forget about doubts and moving forward can only be one. Failures were also made by well-known people all over the world. But, despite this, they found the strength to go further. And they were right! This led them to fame and success.
1. Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg is the great director of our time. He is the author of many wonderful films, including "Jurassic Park", "Saving Private Ryan" and "List of Schindler". But, being young, this future genius of cinema could not pass the entrance examinations to the School of Cinematographic Arts, which worked at the University of Southern California. He did not score enough points and, having agreed to retake them, again failed. In addition, Stephen tried to enter another faculty at this university, but again received a categorical refusal.
Another person in his place might have surrendered. But instead, he is applying to the technical college, and in his spare time was engaged in the creation of short films. One of them and liked the studio Universal Pictures and he was hired there for work.
2. Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison is the inventor of an incandescent lamp. In his childhood, he made toys for himself, at ten years he even built a toy sawmill and a railway. At the age of 14, as a result of the accident, the future scientist lost his hearing and this was not the only failure that lay in wait for him. Only in 1874, at the age of 30, Thomas Edison managed to earn enough money to open a laboratory in Menlo Park. Inventing the incandescent lamp, the scientist put 1999 experiments and all of them were unsuccessful! Only for 2000 the result was positive. Edison always said:
"I was not mistaken once. I found 1999 ways of not doing light bulbs. "
3. Walt Disney
Walt Disney had an unhappy childhood. His father did not work, he was always drunk and beat his son. Mom, in order to calm him, every night read a little son of a fairy tale. Perhaps that is why, as a 12-year-old boy, Walt decided to become a multiplier. He drew comics and cartoons, offered them to different magazines, but everywhere he refused. At the age of 18, he was still taken as a cartoonist, but only after a week was disgraced for his "ineffectiveness."
Walt Disney with a friend started his own business, which brought him income, sufficient for a normal life, but did not stop drawing cartoons. His first digression about Alice failed, and the story of the bunny Oswald was stolen by a treacherous deceiver. The animator did not despair and created Donald Dhaka and Mickey Mouse. Cartoons about these heroes were the beginning of his successful career. It was they who began to pay Walt great fees. So, without retreating from the dream, he subsequently became the owner of 29 Oscars, the Order of the Honorary Legion and even more than 700 other insignia.
4. Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley always dreamed of performing on stage. But the first performances of the future king of rock'n'roll and laureate of three Grammy Awards in clubs ended in complete failure. One of the heads of the entertainment center in which he spoke, told him that he had no future and would rather focus on the main job - the truck driver. And in the spring of 1954, when Presley tried to audition for one of Songfellows' local quartets, he was not only denied, but was kicked out, saying that he could not sing. It's great that this did not stop the singer and he continued to go on casting and sampling, and also record records. In the summer of 1954, Sam Phillips, working at Sun Records, saw the talent in it and recorded the song "That's All Right (Mama)", which brought him unprecedented success.
5. Oprah Winfrey
Today Oprah Winfrey is an idol and an idol of Americans. The programs with her participation look with bated breath. But it was not always so! She could not get a job on television for many years, as everywhere she was recognized as "profitable". On a lot of samples she was denied, calling unnecessarily emotional. Did not become Oprah well-known, even having arranged to conduct Baltimore's news and the second speaker of the six-hour news on WJZ-TV. Reporting about the next hurricane, she cried, and when it was a question of a sharp drop in rates on the exchange, her voice trembled. She was fired because of the low ratings of the transfer. Spectators were surprisingly warm and began to greet the black leader only with enthusiasm when she became the leading program "People say". In the genre of talk show Oprah was able to reveal her talent.
6. Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone was born in New York to a family of impoverished Italian immigrants. During childbirth, he had nerve endings on his face, so Sylvester for a lifetime paralyzed part of the cheek, tongue and lips. Since the school, Stallone dreamed of a film. He went to screen tests, filmed in extras, wrote scripts, played a few secondary roles. But all this did not bring fame or money. On the test of his crazy dream to become an actor laughed, calling him mediocrity. When he was at a dead end, without a livelihood and was forced to warm up in public libraries, a new idea came to him - a script about boxer Rocky Balboa. He wrote a really interesting manuscript and managed not only to sell it, but also to persuade the directors to take on the main role in the film. After the premiere of the film, Stallone woke up famous.
7. Joanne Rowling
This is now the state of Joan Rowling is estimated at $ 1 billion. But when she wrote her first book about Harry Potter, she was a single mother and lived on welfare. The writer wrote the manuscript on an old typewriter, not sleeping at night. Having finished the book, she began to send her to the publishing houses. Refusals came 11 times! The editor of one of the publishing houses advised Rowling to find another job and forget about the worldwide fame, as "children's books are no longer sold." But Rowling continued to move toward her dream, until one small publishing house in London agreed to release a novel about a wizard boy.
8. Beyonce
Beauty Beyonce - an idol of millions and one of the most highly paid singers. But 10 years ago not everyone recognized her talent. She acted as part of the girl's band Destiny's Child. The girls scammed mercilessly among themselves, the producers at first agreed to cooperate with them, and then without an explanation they tore up contracts. And auditions in all sorts of record labels were ineffectual, nobody wanted to record and release the album. When Destiny's Child performed at the prestigious talent competition Star Search, which was broadcast on national television, they were defeated. Only a few years later the girls were noticed by Columbia Records and they recorded the song "Killing Time" became popular all over the world. In addition, Beyonce, unlike her former colleagues, was able to make a solo career: her album sold millions of copies.
9. Joey Mangano
Biography Joy Mangano may well be a role model. This housewife was able to implement the notorious American dream. She lived in poverty, very early went to work and settled in a veterinary clinic. There she came up with the idea how to help four-legged friends get rid of fleas. She invented the first anti-block collar, which could glow in the dark. That's just her idea was stolen by a friend who embodied the idea and got millions for it!
A few years later, being a mom with three children, Joy Mangano came up with a miracle mop that had a cotton rag and squeezing mechanism. On the first batch of self-squeezing mops she collected money from friends, begging and humiliated. But, when she could get into the TV shop, she managed to sell 18,000 pieces in just 20 minutes, which brought Joy to millions, and made her famous throughout the world. Today about this interesting story of a simple American housewife there is even the eponymous film with Jennifer Lawrence in the title role.
10. Michael Jordan
The famous basketball player Michael Jordan in his childhood was lazy, very poorly studied and kept teachers. But he liked basketball. Because of the small growth, he was not taken to the big league and he had to play in the younger league. In it, he lost almost 300 games and missed more than 9,000 times. But Jordan never gave up and every day he trained high jumps, which later became his trademark and for which he received the nickname "Air Jordan". In 1982, the North Carolina University team coach noticed and invited him to play with them. It was in this team that he won his first championship - NCAA.
11. Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe is a woman who has been given many poems and songs. Even decades after her death, she remains a true icon for millions of people! But success did not come to her immediately. As a child, Marilyn Monroe (real name Nora Jin Mortenson) wandered for a long time in foster families and boarding schools. At 16, to again not find herself in a shelter, she marries. After four years, she manages to pass the first samples in the studio of 20th Century Fox for one of the roles in the crowd. But the film did not bring her any money or popularity. In 1948, she signed a contract with the studio Columbia Pictures. That's just here the film is not lucky. The staff of this studio constantly told Monroe that she does not possess either beauty or the need for acting talent. But Marilyn did not listen to anyone. She continued to star in episodic roles until she was given the opportunity to play a major role in the film "All About Eve." After that, her career swiftly went up.
12. Stephen King
The king of horror, the famous American writer Stephen King, whose novels sometimes make him freeze in horror, began to write the first fantastic stories as early as 7 years. At first, his works were very rarely published in magazines and, as the fees were not enough to support the family, Stephen got a job in the laundry.
His first book, admitted to publication, was "Carrie." He sent her to many publishers and received 30 refusals! Only the company "Doubleday" agreed to release this novel, giving the author an advance of 2500 dollars. "Carrie" brought Kingu success and recognition of readers. And since then he continued to write and publish 1 novel every few years.
13. Bill Gates
Very few people know, but before Bill Gates created Microsoft, he became the founder of Traf-O-Data. She worked on the development of traffic counters for city authorities. But only after 10 years of work, it ceased to exist. Her account left $ 794.31. But Bill Gates did not despair and began to work hard on the creation of Microsoft. In just a few years, it has become one of the largest suppliers of software for various computer equipment.
14. Henry Ford
Henry Ford is the world's famous maker of Ford cars. The first company involved in cars, created by him, quickly went bankrupt, as its developments turned out to be of no use to anyone and the investor William Murphy refused to finance the project. Ford managed to persuade this businessman to give him some more money to open another company, but this idea also failed miserably.
After that, Ford begins to work with Alexander Malconson - the seller of coal. He agreed to finance the next project, but only after the design of the produced car will be improved. Henry Ford agreed to this and after a while the cars coming out under the Ford Motor Company brand began to be sold out, and the company became famous all over the world.
15. Garland David Sanders
Garland David Sanders is the founder of the KFC chain of fast food restaurants (Kentucky Fried Chicken). After the termination of military service he worked as the insurer, the farmer, the fireman, but work did not bring to it satisfaction. Garland decided to try himself as the head of the gas station. It was there that he came up with the idea to cook and sell mouth-watering chicken wings. But to develop the culinary business did not work. He was fired from refueling, and Sanders had to travel the US for several years, offering his recipe for cooking chicken to owners of various establishments. Everywhere he heard only refusals. But one day a recipe interested one of the chefs of the diner, and together they began to make and sell the branded chicken. Today, KFC's 16,000 offices operate in more than 100 countries around the world.