Famous Fails

After being cut from his high school basketball team, he went home, locked himself in his room and cried.

• Kevin Hart

• LeBron James

• Michael Jordan

• The Rock

He wasn’t able to speak until he was 4 years old and his teachers said he would never amount to much.

• Thomas Edison

• Bill Gates

• Thomas Jefferson

• Albert Einstein

Was demoted from her job as a news anchor because she “wasn’t fit for television.”

• Oprah Winfrey

• Ellen

• Kelly Ripa

• Barbara Walters

Fired from a newspaper for lacking imagination and having no original ideas.

• J.K. Rowling

• Dr. Seuss

• Walt Disney

• Jerry Seinfeld

At age 11 he was cut from his team after being diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency, which made him smaller in stature than most kids his age.

• Lionel Messi

• Cristiano Ronaldo

• Neymar

• Pelé

At 30 years old he was left devastated and depressed after being removed from the company he started.

• Steve Chen

• Mark Zuckerberg

• Steve Jobs

• Bill Gates

A high school dropout whose personal struggles with drugs and poverty culminated in an unsuccessful suicide attempt.

• Kanye West

• Jay-Z

• Eminem

• Macklemore

He dropped out of school in the 6th grade and opened up a franchise when he was 65 years old, based on his famous recipe.

• Glen Bell

• Dave Thomas

• Richard McDonald

• Colonel Sanders

A teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything and that he should go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality

• Thomas Edison

• Bill Gates

• Albert Einstein

• Alexander Graham Bell

Rejected by Decca Recording Studios, who said “we don’t like their sound…they have no future in show business.”

• One Direction

• N'Sync

• The Beatles

• Aerosmith