| Success comes to those with an unswerving | | | | of formal education throughout his lifetime. Before |
| determination and will persevere through all odds | | | | he became president, his fiancé died, he |
| until the rewards starts flowing in. Ask any | | | | failed in business twice, he had a nervous |
| successful person, when failure came by and | | | | breakdown, and he was defeated in 8 elections. |
| knocked them down seven times, they got up | | | | Frank Winfield Woolworth got a job in a dry |
| back the eighth time. | | | | goods store when he was 21. But his employer |
| Among the most successful today and in the past | | | | would not let him serve any customer because |
| are those who experienced heart breaking failures. | | | | he concluded that Frank "didn't have enough |
| Lucille Ball was dismissed from drama school with | | | | common sense to serve the customers". |
| a note that read "waiting her time, she's too shy | | | | When Albert Einstein was young, his parents |
| to put her best foot forward.". | | | | thought he was mentally retarded. His grades in |
| The Beatles was turned down by the Decca | | | | school were so poor that a teacher asked him to |
| recording company who said "We don't like their | | | | quit, saying, "Einstein, you will never amount to |
| sound, and guitar music is on the way out." | | | | anything!" |
| Ulysses S. Grant was a failed soldier, farmer, and | | | | Marilyn Monroe was dropped by 20th Century-Fox |
| real estate agent. At 38 years old he went to | | | | because her producer thought she was |
| work for his father as a handy man. | | | | unattractive and cannot act. |
| Michael Jordan was cut from the high school | | | | Soichiro Honda was turned down by Toyota |
| basketball team; he went home, locked himself in | | | | Motor Corporation during a job interview as an |
| his room, and cried. | | | | engineer. |
| A teacher told Thomas Edison he was too stupid | | | | John Grisham's first novel was rejected by |
| to learn anything, and he should go into a field | | | | sixteen agents and twelve publishing houses. |
| where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant | | | | "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure |
| personality. Edison failed 10, 000 times before he | | | | to meet with much temporary defeat and, |
| made the electric light. | | | | perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a |
| Steven Spielberg dropped out of junior high | | | | man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do |
| school. He was persuaded to come back and was | | | | is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of |
| placed in a learning-disabled class. He only lasted a | | | | men do. |
| month and then dropped out of school forever. | | | | Every adversity, every failure, every heartache |
| Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper because | | | | carries with it the seed on an equal or greater |
| he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas." | | | | benefit". Napoleon Hill |
| Ludwig van Beethoven's music teacher once said | | | | Successful people are just ordinary people, who |
| of him "as a composer, he is hopeless". And | | | | usually find themselves in extra-ordinary situations, |
| during his career, he lost his hearing yet he | | | | and who possess extra-ordinary amounts of |
| managed to produce unforgettable music. | | | | determination to succeed. |
| Abraham Lincoln, received no more than 5 years | | | | |