In Good company: 10 People who failed but Never Quit.

Steve Job: Got fired from Apple, a Company he founded.

Henry Ford: Failed business left him broke five times before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company.

Bill Gates: A drop out from Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. Gate later created the global empire that is Microsoft.

Colonel Harland David Sanders: his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it, later founded Kentucky Fried Chicken

Walt Disney: fired by a newspaper editor because, "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." Started number of business that ended in bankruptcy and failure, eventually created “Disney”, today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world

Albert Einstein: he was called mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. well in the end, he won Nobel Prize and changed the face of modern physics.

Thomas Edison: In his early years, teachers told Edison he was "too stupid to learn anything. "Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design that worked.

Winston Churchill: Struggled in school and failed the sixth grade. Defeated in every election for public office until he finally became the Prime Minister at the ripe old age of 62. Won the Nobel Prize, twice-elected Prime Minster of the United Kingdom.

Oprah Winfrey: enduring a rough and often abusive childhood as well as numerous career setbacks including being fired from her job as a television reporter because she was "unfit for tv.” Today Oprah is one of the most iconic faces on TV as well as one of the richest and most successful women in the world.

Abraham Lincoln: He started numerous failed business and was defeated in numerous runs he made for public office. He became one of the greatest leaders of the United States and the world.

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