Famous Failures1

After being cut from his high school basketball team,locked himself in his room & cried.

• Albert Einstein

• Michael Jordan

• Leonel Messi

• Steve Jobs

Was demoted from her job as a news anchor because she "wasn't fit for television."

• The Beatles

• Selena Gomez

• Oprah Winfrey

• Albert Einstein

His teachers said he would "Never amount to much"

• Steve Jobs

• Abraham Lincoln

• Albert Einstein

• Walt Disney

Fired from a newspaper for "lacking Imagination" and"Having no original ideas"

• Steve Job

• Albert EInstein

• Walt Disney

• Michael Jordan

Cut from his team after being diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency.

• Lionel Messi

• Michael Jordan

• Kobe Bryant

• Steve Jobs

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

• Steve Jobs

• The Beatles

• Walt Disney

• Lionel Messi

High school dropout,personal struggles w/drugs &poverty led to an unsuccessful suicide attempt

• Thomas Edison

• Eminem

• Leonel Messi

• Michael Jordan

"Too stupid to learn anything & "Might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality"

• Albert Einstein

• Walt Disney

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Edison

Rejected by Decca Recording, "We don't like their sound.They have no future in Show Business"

• Oprah Winfrey

• The Beatles

• Adel

• Justin Timberlake

His first book was rejected by 27 publishers!

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Green

• Dr. Seuss

• Steve Jobs