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.
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