http://politichicks.com/2015/08/never-give-up-a-teachersmotto/
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So let’s take a look at each of the groups
successful solutions
What are your thoughts at this point?
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Why did it fail?
Did you learn anything by failing?
Is it ok to fail?
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Business:
◦ Henry Ford: early business he failed and was broke
5 times before the Ford Company became a success
◦ R.H. Macy: started 7 failed businesses before
Macy’s
◦ Bill Gates: Dropped out of Harvard, failed at his
first business
 (Autism?)
◦ Walt Disney: fired by a newspaper due to “lack of
imagination and had no good ideas”. He went
bankrupt but kept trying
 (Dyslexia)
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
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Scientists:
◦ Einstein: would not speak or read until he was 7, was
thought to be mentally handicapped or slow and antisocial.
Was expelled from school and refused entrance to
Polytechnic School. Won the Nobel Prize and changed the
face of modern physics
 (Autism, Dyslexia, OCD, Asperger’s?)
◦ Darwin: gave up on a medical career chastised for being
lazy and too dreamy. He said about himself, “I was
considered by all my masters, and my father, to be a very
ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of
intellect”
 (OCD, Speech differences/stutter)
◦ Newton: did not do well in school, he had to run the family
farm, failed miserably, so poor that his uncle took charge
and sent him to school at Cambridge where he finally
blossomed.
 (Epilepsy, Speech differences/stutter, Asperger’s?)
◦ Socrates: once sentenced to death because of his new ideas
and was told he was “an immoral corrupter of youth”
 (Epilepsy)
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
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Inventors:
◦ Edison: Was told he was “too stupid to learn
anything”, was fired from his first two jobs for not
being productive enough. Made over 1,000
unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb
 (Dyslexia, Hearing loss, Asperger’s?)
◦ Wright Brothers: battled depression and family
illness before starting bicycle shop and began to
experiment in flight. Had numerous failed attempts
and tons of failed prototypes
http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2012/06/22/guest-post-reinventing-thewheel/wright-brothers-2/
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
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Public Figures:
◦ Churchill: Nobel-Prize wining and twice was elected as
Prime-Minister to the UK, struggled in school and failed
6th grade. Many political failures.
 (Mood Disorders, Dyslexia, OCD, Speech lisp)
◦ Lincoln: went to war a captain but came back a private
(lower rank), numerous failed business and was defeated
many times as he ran for public offices
 (Depression, Asperger’s?)
◦ Oprah: had an abusive childhood and was fired from her
job as a TV reporter because she was “unfit for TV”
◦ Harry Truman: started a silk shirt and clothing business
that went bankrupt only after a few years
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
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Hollywood:
◦ Seinfeld: froze on stage and was booed and jeered off
stage
◦ Fred Astaire: Was told that he can act, sing, was slightly
bald, and couldn’t dance. Became incredibly successful as
an actor, singer, and dancer
◦ Sidney Poitier: Was told to stop wasting peoples time and
become a dishwasher, won an Oscar
◦ Charlie Chaplin: rejected in Hollywood for being
nonsensical
◦ Lucille Ball: was a regarded to be a failed actress and a B
movie star, drama instructors told her she’d never make it
◦ Harrison Ford: “didn’t have what it takes to be a star”
 (Mood Disorders, OCD)
◦ Marilyn Monroe: was told to be a secretary by many
modeling agents, rough upbringing, became a pin-up
model and actress
 (Asperger’s?)
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
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Writers/Artists:
◦ Van Gogh: during his lifetime only sold one painting to a
friend for cheap
 (Epilepsy, Asperger’s?)
◦ Emily Dickinson: was ignored while alive having less than
a dozen poems published out of her 1,800 written
◦ Spielberg: rejected from USC of Theater, Film and TV three
times, dropped out of another school, finished his degree
35 years after starting his degree
◦ Steven King: Carrie was rejected 30 times, he threw it in
the trash, his wife pulled it out of the trash and submitted
it one more time
◦ J.K. Rowling: was penniless, depressed, divorced, trying to
raise a child while going to school and write Harry Potter,
was on welfare just to survive
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dow69AwNXnk
◦ Monet: was mocked and rejected by artistic elite in Paris
 (Vision impaired, blind still painted)
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
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Musicians:
◦ Mozart: began composing at 5 writing over 600 pieces that were laughed at
and that are today some of the best created, was dismissed as a court musician
in Salzburg
 (Autism, Tourette's, Asperger’s?)
◦ Elvis: after just one performance he was told that he wasn’t going anywhere
and was told to go back to driving a truck
◦ Beatles: record company told them “we don’t like their sound, and guitar
music is on the way out”
◦ Beethoven: was extremely awkward on the violin because he was too busy
composing and didn’t practice. Teachers told him he was hopeless and would
never succeed with violin or composing.
 (Mood disorder, OCD, Deaf/hearing impaired, Asthma, Asperger’s?)
◦ Simon Cowell
 15, Cowell dropped out of school and bounced around jobs. Worked in the
mail room publishing, formed his own publishing company which folded in
it’s first year. Lots of debt forced to move in with parents
 Eventually landed a job with a small company called Fanfare Records, which
he helped the company become a very successful before launching the
“American Idol” and “X-Factor” franchises that made him famous
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
http://www.growthink.com/content/7-entrepreneurs-whose-perseverance-will-inspire-
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Sports:
◦ Michael Jordan: was cut from his high school
basketball team. “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 wining shot, and I missed. I have failed over
and over and over again in my life. And that is why
I succeeded”
◦ Babe Ruth: 1,330 strikeouts “Every strike brings me
closer to the next homerun”
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/02/16/50-famously-successful-people-who-failed-at-first/
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14bBul
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PERSERVERANCE
GRIT
FAILURE
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“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
― H.G. Wells
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes
which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the
truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
― Henry Ford
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/failure?page=2
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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that
won't work.”
― Thomas Edison
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the
courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no
loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston Churchill
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to
succeed.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're
gonna fail at everything.”
― Marilyn Monroe
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/failure?page=2