Famous Failures

A famous person who was defeated 7 times while running for political office...

• Abraham Lincoln
• George Washington
• George Bush
• Harry Truman

A cartoonist who was told, "it's easy to see from these sketches that you have no talent."

• Charles Shultz
• Stan Lee
• Walt Disney
• Mr. Pixar

An author whose 1st children's book was rejected by 23 different publishers

• Shell Silverstein
• Dr. Suess
• JK Rowling
• Judy Blume

A famous singer who was fired after his first performance at the Grand Ole Opery

• Justin Beiber
• Garth Brooks
• Kayne West
• Elvis Presley

A famous actress whose previous jobs included doing the hair and makeup for corpses

• Julia Roberts
• Whoopie Goldberg
• Selena Gomez
• Angelina Jolie

A famous author who lived on welfare for years and in an apartment infested with mice

• JK Rowling (Harry Potter)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
• Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
• Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

A famous athlete who was cut from the varsity basketball team his sophomore year in high school

• Chris Paul
• Lebron James
• Michael Jordan
• Magic Johnson

An inventor who was thrown out of school because his teachers thought he couldn't learn

• Thomas Edison
• Steve Jobs
• Benjamin Franklin
• Nicholi Tesla

A famous Harvard University drop out

• Bill Nye the Science Guy
• Bill Clinton
• Albert Einstein
• Mark Zuckerberg

An inventor of a fried chicken recipe that was rejected by more than 1,000 restaurant owners

• Mr. Bojangles
• Truett Cathy
• Colonel Sanders
• Dave Thomas