10 famous people who failed to stop on their way to success

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

No one is immune from defeats and mistakes. Even the richest and most famous were not always lucky.

The path to success is rarely straight and short. It is easy to be convinced of this by reading the little-known facts of the biography of those who are considered to be darlings of fate. They became who they became, not because they had no failures, but because failures did not stop them.

Thomas Edison

Thousands of unsuccessful inventions preceded the creation of the famous light bulb. In addition, early in his career, Edison was fired from Western Union as a telegraph operator. This happened after he ruined the furniture in the chief's office with his chemical experiments with acid.

Henry Ford

Ford loved cars from an early age. However, the Ford Motor Company was not his first brainchild. Prior to that, he founded another automobile manufacturing company - Detroit Automobile. Alas, she quickly went broke. According to customer reviews, the cars produced were of terrible quality and at the same time expensive.

Steve Jobs

A few years after the creation of Apple, the board of directors forced the co-founder of the company Jobs to leave his post. He subsequently founded NeXT, a computer and software company that was then acquired by Apple.

Arianna Huffington

In her early 20s, Arianna wrote a book and was refused publication by 36 publishers. She subsequently co-founded and editor-in-chief of the popular online publication The Huffington Post, as well as the author of several best-selling books.

Anna Wintour

The editor-in-chief of Vogue USA magazine at the beginning of her career worked as a junior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, where she did not last even a year. The reason for this was Wintour's non-standard ideas, which seemed to the editor-in-chief of the magazine too extravagant.

Harland Sanders

KFC founder Harland Sanders has been a chronic failure for most of his life. On account of his dismissal from school in the seventh grade, work as an assistant to a blacksmith, farmer, miner, firefighter, fireman and an unsuccessful attempt at a lawyer's career.

At 40, he began cooking his famous chicken and offering it to customers at his gas station, and then to guests of his own roadside motel. Things were going well until the motel's customer flow dried up because of the new motorway. At that time, Sanders was 65 years old. Then he decided to franchise his signature recipe to restaurants and received over a thousand rejections before anyone agreed. In 1964, the colonel sold the KFC Corporation for $ 2 million.

Sam Walton

The founder of the Walmart chain started out by renting premises for his first store for 5 years. Walton began to build a unique corporate culture in it, which made the store very popular. And after 5 years, the owner of the premises refused to renew the lease and gave the promoted place as a store to his son. Walton had to start all over again in another city.

Walt Disney

Before becoming a legendary cartoonist, Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star newspaper for lack of creativity and lack of imagination. He then opened his first animation studio, Laugh-O-Gram, but it soon went bankrupt.

Bill Gates

At 17, Gates teamed up with Paul Allen to create Traf-O-Data, a company specializing in traffic reading and reporting for road engineers. Alas, this did not bring a lot of money.

Oprah Winfrey

Winfrey was once a news reporter for Baltimore TV, where she was fired for overly emotional reporting. The verdict issued by the producer of Baltimore TV was: "Not suitable for work on TV news programs."