I Used to work in petrol Bunks
-Dhirubhai Ambani
” I was rejected in the interview of Pilot”
Abdul Kalam
” I was rejected for the job in All India Radio bcoz of my heavy voice”
-Amitabh Bacchan
I failed in 8th Standard”
–Sachin Tendulkar
“During my high school, I was dropped from school basketball team”
-Michael Jorden
” I didn’t even complete my university education”
-Bill Gates
” I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training”
-Lionel Messi
” I used to sleep on the floor in friends rooms returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple”
-Steve Jobs
” My teachers used to call me a failure”
-Tony Blair
His teachers called him “Slow” and ” mentally handicapped” . He also didn’t speak until he turned 4 and didn’t read until he was 7
– Albert Einstein
12 times J.K Rowling‘s Book Harry Potter was rejected by publishers
KFC founder Colonel Sanders was turned down 1009 times when selling his chicken recipe at ripe age of 65 !
Sylvester Stallone was rejected 1500 times when selling his script & himself for famous Rocky film
Thomas Edison found 10,000 ways not to create light bulb before succeeding
Winston Churchill failed in sixth grade. After school he faced many years of political failures, as he was defeated in every election for public office until he finally become the Prime Minister at the ripe old age of 62.
His act was initially rejected by Hollywood studio chiefs because they felt it was a little too nonsensical to ever sell
-Charlie Chaplin
Sir Isaac Newton‘s mother pulled him out of school as a boy so that he could run the family farm. He failed miserably
Stephen King‘s first novel, carrie, was rejected 30 times before it was published.
A list of Abraham Lincoln’s Failures:
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Lost Job,1832
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Defeated for legislature, 1832
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Failed in business, 1833
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Elected to legislature, 1834
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Sweetheart (Ann Rutledge) died, 1835
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Had nervous breakdown, 1836
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Defeated for speaker, 1838
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Defeated for nomination for congress, 1843
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Elected to congress, 1846
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Lost renomination, 1848
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Rejected for land officer, 1849
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Defeated for Senate, 1854
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Defeated for nomination for vice-president, 1856
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Again defeated for senate 1858
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Elected President, 1860