She got fired when working at the London office of Amnesty International because she would write stories on her work computer all day long.

She was an evening news reporter and apparently got fired because she couldn’t sever her emotions from her stories. Eventually she was fired from the producer of Baltimore’s WJZ-TV.

He dropped out of Harvard and started a business with fellow dropout & computer fanatic called Traf-O-Data, which flopped. Luckily, they tried their hand at business again and their company changed the world of computing with their Windows operating platform.

He didn’t speak until he was four and didn’t read until he was seven. He was subsequently expelled from school and was not admitted to the local Polytechnic Academy. Long story short, he eventually came around.

He entered war as a young Captain but came back from war as a much lower Private. Later on, he tried to start up a ton of businesses, all of which failed, and before becoming president, he lost several runs for public office.

She was considered a failed actress, a B-list actress. So much so that her drama instructors urged her to try another profession.

He was cut from his high school basketball team. He once said, “I have missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I have missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

He was rejected from the University of Southern California School of Theater, Film and Television three times. He was eventually accepted by another school, a school which he dropped out of to pursue directing. In 2002, at the age of 56, he finally completed his BA.

She dropped out of college, moved to New York, and took a job at Dunkin’ Donuts in Times Square, where she apparently didn’t last a day after she squirted jelly filling all over a customer.