16 Most Inspiring Celebrity Flops
In order to be successful in business or in life, I realized that we must continuously take corrective action. Taking chances day in and day out can be extremely exhausting, especially when things don’t go my way. Therefore, whenever I am faced with a disappointing event or an undesirable outcome, I NEVER FORGET these famous failures:
1.Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft, has literally changed the world’s work culture in the 21st century by simplifying the way computers are used. He happens to be the richest man in the world for the last decade. However, in the 1970s, before starting, he dropped out of Harvard University. The most ironic part is that he started a software company (soon to become Microsoft) by buying software technology from “someone” for only $50 back then.
2.Abraham Lincoln, received no more than 5 years of formal education throughout his life. When he grew up, he entered politics and had 12 big failures before he was elected the 16th president of the United States of America.
3.Isaac Newton He was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. His work on optics and gravitation made him one of the greatest scientists the world has ever known. Many thought Isaac was born a genius, but he wasn’t! When he was young, he did very poorly in elementary school, so badly that his teachers had no idea how to improve his grades.
4.Ludwig van Beethoven, a German composer of classical music, is widely regarded as one of history’s supreme composers. His reputation has inspired, and in many cases intimidated, composers, musicians, and audiences that followed. Before the start of his career, Beethoven’s music teacher once said of him “as a composer, he’s hopeless.” And during his career, he lost his hearing, but he managed to produce good music: a deaf man composing music, he’s not ironic!
5.Thomas Edison who developed many devices that greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, with 1,093 US patents to his name. When he was a child, his teacher told him that he was too stupid to learn anything. When he started out on his own, he tried more than 9,000 experiments before creating the first successful light bulb.
6. The Woolworth Company was a retail company that was one of the original five and dime stores. Woolworth’s first store was founded in 1878 by Frank Winfield Woolworth and soon grew to become one of the world’s largest retail chains in the 20th century. Before starting his own business, Woolworth got a job at a dry goods store when he was 21 years old. But his employer wouldn’t let him serve any customers because he concluded that Frank “didn’t have enough common sense to serve customers.”
7. By acclamation, Michael Jordan he is the best basketball player of all time. A phenomenal athlete with a unique combination of grace, speed, power, artistry, improvisation skills and an insatiable competitive desire. Jordan single-handedly redefined the NBA superstar. Before joining the NBA, Jordan was just an ordinary person, so ordinary that he was cut from the high school basketball team due to his “lack of skill”.
8.Walt Disney He was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. Disney, one of the world’s best-known movie producers, founded a production company. The corporation, now known as The Walt Disney Company, generates average revenue of US$30 billion annually. Disney started his own business in his garage and his first cartoon production went bankrupt. During his first press conference, a newspaper editor ridiculed Walt Disney because he had no good ideas in film production.
9.Winston Churchill he failed the sixth grade. However, that never stopped him from working harder! He struggled and eventually became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II. Churchill is generally regarded as one of the greatest leaders in Britain and in world history. In a 2002 BBC poll to identify the “100 Greatest Britons”, participants voted Churchill the most important of all.
10.Steven Spielberg is an American film director. He has won 3 Academy Awards and is among the most successful filmmakers in history. Above all, Steven was recognized as the most financially successful film director of all time. During his childhood, Spielberg dropped out of high school. They persuaded him to return and placed him in a class for people with learning disabilities. It only lasted a month and then he dropped out of school for good.
11.Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist widely considered the most important scientist of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 and “for his services to Theoretical Physics”. However, when Einstein was young, his parents thought that he was mentally retarded. His grades in school were so poor that a teacher asked him to resign, saying, “Einstein, you’ll never amount to anything!”
12 In 1947, one year into his contract, marilyn monroe she was dropped by 20th Century-Fox because her producer thought she was unattractive and unable to act. That did not determine her at all! She went on and was eventually recognized by the public as the most famous movie star, sex symbol, and pop icon of the 20th century.
13. John GrishamThe first novel of was rejected by sixteen agents and twelve publishers. He kept writing and writing until he became better known as a novelist and author for his modern legal plays. The media have coined him as one of the best novel authors still alive of the 21st century.
14. Henry FordThe first two car companies of ‘s failed. That didn’t stop him from incorporating the Ford Motor Company and being the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the production of affordable cars in the world. It not only revolutionized industrial production in the United States and Europe, but also had a great influence on the economy and society of the 20th century. His combination of mass production, high wages, and low prices for consumers has started a school of management known as “Fordism.” He became one of the three most famous and richest men in the world during his time.
15.Soichiro Honda he was turned down by the Toyota Motor Corporation during a job interview as an “engineer” after World War II. He continued to be without a job until his neighbors started buying his “homemade scooters.” Subsequently, he set out on his own to start his own company. Honda Today, the company has grown to become the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer and one of the most profitable automobile manufacturers, surpassing giants such as GM and Chrysler. With a global network of 437 subsidiaries, Honda develops, manufactures and markets a wide variety of products ranging from small utility engines and scooters to specialty sports cars.
16. Akio Morita, founder of giant household electrical products, Sony Corporation, the first product was an electric rice cooker, it only sold 100 pots (because it burned rice instead of cooking). Today, Sony generates US$66 billion in revenue and is ranked as the sixth largest electrical and electronics company in the world.