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Famous People Who Found Success Despite Failure

“Fall down seven times, get up eight.” – Japanese proverb

“You might never fail on the scale I did but it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default."
 * J.K Rowling

A year later she was given the green light by Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury, who agreed to publish the book but insisted she get a day job cause there was **no money in children’s books.** || Mark Cuban “I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter how many times you failed,” Cuban says. “You only have to be right once. I tried to sell powdered milk. I was an idiot lots of times, and I learned from them all.”
 * Twelve publishers rejected the manuscript!**

The billionaire owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks got rich when he sold his company to Yahoo for $5.9 billion in stock.

He admitted he was terrible at his early jobs. His parents wanted him to have a normal job. So he tried carpentry but hated it. He was a short order cook but a terrible one. He waited tables but couldn’t open a bottle of wine. ||
 * Vincent Van Gogh

He only **sold one painting** in his lifetime! Just one to a friend. Despite that he kept painting and finished over 800 pieces. Now everyone wants to buy them and his most expensive painting is valued at $142.7 million. || Michael Jordan He’s famous for being cut from his high school basketball team. He turned out to be the greatest basketball player but never let failure deter him. > “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” > > ||
 * Thomas Edison

No list of success from failures would be complete without the man who gave us many inventions including the light bulb. He knew failure wouldn’t stop him. > If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. > || The Beatles They were rejected by many record labels. In a famous rejection, the label said, ”guitar groups are on the way out” and “the Beatles have no future in show business”. After that the Beatles signed with EMI, brought Beatlemania to the United States, and became the greatest band in history. ||
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