Sunday, February 1, 2015

PERSONAL SPECIAL .................Incredibly Successful People Who Started Out As Failures (3)

Incredibly Successful People Who Started Out As Failures (3)

Akio Morita

The founder of Sony was considered a major flop at first, manufacturing a rice cooker that burned way more food than it cooked. But despite poor early sales that brought the mockery of Sony as a new company by the business community, Akio Morita found a way to turn the brand into the multi-billion dollar company the world knows today.

Stephen Spielberg

He may now be one of the most successful filmmakers in the world, but the University of Southern California refused to give Steven Spielberg a shot in the School of Theater, Film and Television -- three times. He clearly didn't take no for an answer as he went on to pursue directing, and the school awarded him an honorary degree in 1994.

Lady Gaga

This New York-native, electro-pop diva proved just how badly she wanted to be in the spotlight throughout the early years of her career. After dropping out of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts to pursue her music and joining with major label Def Jam Recordings, she was let go only three months after being signed, forcing her to start all over again.


F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald had extremely high hopes for his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, hoping for "something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Unfortunately, the book received mixed reviews upon its release, and sales proved even worse. It wasn't until after he died in 1940, considering himself a forgotten failure, that the book struck a chord with the country to the point of becoming a classic component of every high schooler's literature education.


Albert Einstein

Einstein was a late bloomer, not speaking until age 4 or reading until age 7. These challenges did not prevent him from winning the Nobel prize in physics for discovering the photoelectric effect and developing the relativity theory. There's no doubt that the folks at Zurich Polytechnic School regret their initial rejection of the man whose name is now synonymous with "genius."


Claude Monet

One of the most well-known artists of the impressionist movement, Claude Monet was not quite praised for his work when he was alive. In fact, it was quite the opposite, with the Paris Salon endlessly mocking and rejecting his art. Yet, today Monet is considered the “prince of Impressionists.”


Emily Dickinson

The now-beloved letters and poetry of Emily Dickinson failed to resonate with their audience at first. While the author ultimately shared approximately 1,800 complete works with the world, fewer than a dozen of them were published in her lifetime.
The Huffington Post  |  By Alena Hall



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