Walt Disney
Fired by a Newspaper because ‘he lacked imagination & had no good ideas”
Went bankrupt several times
Proposal for Disneyland was rejected on the grounds that it would only attract “riffraff”
Thomas Edison
Scolded by his teachers as “too stupid to learn anything”
Fired from his first 2 jobs for being “non-productive”
Made 1000 attempts to invent the light bulb
(an invention of 1000 steps!)
Albert Einstein
Didn’t speak until he was 4yrs old
Didn’t read until 7 yrs
Parents thought he was subnormal
Teachers described him as “mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in foolish dreams”
Charles Schutz
His yearbook - rejected at school
Fred Astaire
rejected at first screen-test: “can’t act. can’t sing. slightly bald. can dance a little”
Beatles
Turned down for a recording contract: “we don’t like their sound. Guitar groups are on their way out”
Elton John
Thrown out of an audition, as ‘crap”
Not in league with the alumni above, ...yet!
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