Burning Boy

So you have tried something & you have failed. perhaps numerous times. You may have been told you have no talent, aren’t cut out for “this business” or are never going to “make it in this line of
work”.

Well don’t be discouraged. The following are tales of other individuals who were told the same thing or something similar & went on to be major successes! You might recognize a few:

The Vice President of Columbia told this actor that they was never going to make it in the business. The actor? – Harrison Ford

His first book was rejected by 12 publishing houses & sixteen agents. – John Grisham

Was told by his sister that they would amount to nothing & be a disgrace to himself & his relatives – Charles Darwin

Turned down by a recording company saying “We don’t like their sound & guitar music is on the way out” they were talking about the Beatles

Told by a music teacher “as a composer they is hopeless” – Beethoven

Was told that “he couldn’t sing at all” Enrico Caruso

Were told by Publishers that “anthologies didn’t sell” & the book was “too positive”

Fired from a newspaper because they “lacked imagination & had no original ideas” – Walt Disney

Told by a teacher they was “too dull to learn anything” Thomas Edison

Rejected a total of 140 times. The book? Chicken Soup for the Soul. It now has 65 different titles & has sold over 80 million copies all over the world.

Wasn’t able to speak until they was 4 years elderly & his teachers said they would “never amount to much” – Albert Einstein

Failed the sixth grade – Winston Churchill

Did poorly in school & failed at running the relatives farm – Isaac Newton

Was not allowed to wait on customers in the store they worked in because “he didn’t have sense” – F. W. Woolworth

Was cut from the high school basketball team, went home, locked himself in his room & cried – Michael Jordan