When you see successful people whether they're actors, scientists, or entrepreneurs you probably only see the things that they do right. In other words, you see them as a success. What you don't seebehind many highly influential people are stories of rejection and defeat as they climbed their way to the top. But assome of the world's most successful people prove, it's not how many times you're rejected, it's whether you keep going or not. 1
J.K. Rowling
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Before theHarry Potter series sold more than 450 million copies and was made into a hit movie franchise, Rowling was a single parent living on welfare in a cramped apartment. She sent out herHarry Potter and the Philosophers Stone manuscript and said she wasnt going to give up until every single publisher turned me down, which she often feared would happen. ButBloomsbury gave her book the green light in 1997, and she is now one of theworlds topearning authors.
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Fred Astaire
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You know him as aHollywood legend, but in one of his firstscreen tests, an executive wrote: Cant sing. Cant act. Slightly balding. Can dance a little. Yeah, he could dance a little...
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Oprah Winfrey
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Andyou get a rejection! Andyou get a rejection! Oprahs first came when aBaltimore TV producer reportedly told her she was unfit for television news. As a consolation, heoffered her a role on a daytime TV show,People Are Talking, where she stayed foreight years. You know what comes next 25 years of her own show and an estimated $3.2 billion worth. Billion. With a b.
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Steven Spielberg
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Spielberg couldnt even get into the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts after applying multiple times. It turns out it didnt matter, as he went on to createJaws in 1975 anyway, has won three Academy Awards, 4 Emmys, 7 Daytime Emmys, and his 27 movies have grossed more than$9 billion. Hes gonna need a bigger boat for that bank.
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Walt Disney
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In 1919, Disney was fired from one of his first animation jobs at the Kansas City Star newspaper because hiseditor felt he lacked imagination and had no good ideas, and he later drove an animation studio into bankruptcy.
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Not a great start, be he made up for it bymoving to California with his brother and starting the Disney Brothers Studio, eventually creating Mickey Mouse and Disneyland and winning 22 Academy Awards.
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Soichiro Honda
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A mechanical genius, Honda wasostracized by the Japanese business community for his individuality. No big deal. He went on tochallenge theAmerican automotive industry in the 1970s and led a Japanese automotive revolution.
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Vera Wang
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You probably know her as being a ridiculously successful designer much more than being a rejected editor and Olympic figure skater, but shes all of the above. She failed to make the 1968 Olympic figure skating team and was passed over for the editor-inchief position at Vogue, so at age 40, she began designing wedding dresses and now has a business worthover $1 billion. Id say she scored a 10.
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Colonel Harland David Sanders
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Which came first: the fried chicken or the rejection? Sanders was reportedlyfired from dozens ofjobs often because of his temper before closing his first restaurant and going broke at age 65.After that hetraveled across the US looking for someone to sell his fried chicken. Finally in 1964, when hewas 74, he had more than 600franchised outlets for his chicken and he sold his interest in the company for $2 million to a group of investors.
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