Famous People Failures

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Marilyn Monroe's first contract with Columbia expired because they told her she wasn't pretty or talented enough to be an actress.

Soichiro Honda was passed over for an engineering job at Toyota and left unemployed.He later founded the Honda Motors Company.

The first time Jerry Seinfeld went on stage, he was booed away by the jeering audience.

In Fred Astaire's first screen test, the judges wrote: "Can't act, can't sing, slightly bald, can dance a little."

Oprah Winfrey was fired from her TV reporting job because they told her she wasn't fit to be on television.

Lucille Ball spent many years on the B-List and her agent told her to pursue a different career.

After his first film, Harrison Ford was so disappointing the producer told him that he would probably never succeed.

Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting in his entire life, and that was to a friend.

Henry Ford's first auto company went out of business.

Stephen King was initially so frustrated with his first novel "Carrie", that he threw it in the trash.

Denny, the manager of Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after just one performance telling him, "you ain't goin' nowhere, son.

After dropping out of Harvard, Bill Gates failed with his first business called Traf-O-Data.

Sony's first product was a rice cooker that unfortunately didn't cook the rice, it burnt it,selling less than 100 units.

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he lacked imagination and didn't have any good ideas.

Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was four years old and didn't read until age seven. His teachers labeled him "slow" and "mentally handicapped."

Isaac Newton was tasked with running the family farm but was a miserable failure.

Charlie Chaplin's early career was rejected by executives because they thought he was too obscure for people to understand.

Harland David Sanders, the famous KFC "Colonel," couldn't sell his chicken. More than 1000 restaurants rejected him.

Thomas Edison's teacher told him he was "too stupid to learn anything."

Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade. He was defeated in every public office role he ran for.

Charles Darwin was considered an average student. He gave up on a career in medicine and was going to school to become a parson.