Failure is the first step towards success

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FAILURE is the first step towards SUCCESS!

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FAILURE is the first step towards SUCCESS!

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Oprah Winfrey was actually FIRED from one of her first jobs because she was “unfit for T.V.!”

OPRAH

WINFREY

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Before Walt Disney built the empire he has today, he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.“ He was actually told, “a mouse will never work!”

WALT

DISNEY

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Before J.K. Rowling had any "Harry Potter" success, the writer was a divorced singled mother on welfare struggling to get by while also attending school and writing a novel. Luckily, that novel turned into the "Harry Potter" franchise, which has since made Rowling a billionaire!

JK

ROWLING

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As the story goes, the first time the young comedian walked on stage at a comedy club, he looked out at the audience, froze and was eventually booed off the stage!

But, a determined Seinfeld went back the next night and performed a successful set.

SEINFELD

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After being cut from his high school basketball team, a young Michael Jordan went home and cried in the privacy of his bedroom.

But Jordan didn't let this early-in-life setback stop him from playing the game and the basketball superstar has stated, "I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." M

ICHAEL

JORDAN

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Steve Jobs was a college dropout, a fired tech executive and an unsuccessful businessman. At 30-years-old he was left devastated after being unceremoniously removed from the company he founded.

Jobs explained, "I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.“

After his return to Apple, Jobs created several iconic products, including the iPod, iPhone and iPad!

Steve died one of the richest men in the world! STEVE

JOBS

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In 1954, Elvis was still a no-name performer, and Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after just one performance telling him, "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck.“

Elvis went on to become the second best-selling artist of all time! ELVIS

PRESLEY

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While Ford is today known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn't an instant success. In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five times before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company.

HENRY

FORD

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Gates didn't seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didn't work, Gates' later work did, creating the global empire that is Microsoft.

BILL

GATES

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Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken had a hard time selling his chicken at first. In fact, his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it.

COLONEL

SANDERS

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In his early years, teachers told Edison he was "too stupid to learn anything." Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design that worked.

THOMAS

EDISON

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Today, nearly every child has read The Cat in the Hat or Green Eggs and Ham, yet 27 different publishers rejected Dr. Seuss's first book To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. T

HEODORE

GEISEL

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After numerous attempts at creating flying machines, several years of hard work, and tons of failed prototypes, the brothers finally created a plane that could get airborne and stay there.

THE

WRIGHT

BROTHERS

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In his formative years, young Beethoven was incredibly awkward on the violin and was often so busy working on his own compositions that he neglected to practice. Despite his love of composing, his teachers felt he was hopeless at it and would never succeed with the violin or in composing. Beethoven kept plugging along, however, and composed some of the best-loved symphonies of all time–five of them while he was completely deaf.

BEETHOVEN

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You probably know Babe Ruth because of his home run record (714 during his career), but along with all those home runs came a pretty hefty amount of strikeouts as well (1,330 in all). In fact, for decades he held the record for strikeouts. When asked about this he simply said, "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

BABE

RUTH

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Parveen Kumar Chadha… THINK TANK

(Founder and C.E.O of Saxbee Consultants & Other-Mother )

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