Walt Disney: Fired from a newspaper for “lacking imagination” and “having no original ideas”…

Albert Einstein: Wasn’t able to speak until he was almost four years old and his teachers said he would “never amount to much”

The Beatles: Rejected by Decca Recording studios, who said “we don’t like their sound… They have no future in show business”

Steve Jobs: At the age of 30, he was left devastated and depressed after being unceremoniously removed from the company he started

Michael Jordan: After being cut from his high school basketball team, he went home, locked himself in his room and cried

Eminem: A High School dropout, whose personal struggles with drugs and poverty culminated in an unsuccessful suicide attempt

Oprah Winfrey: Was demoted from her job as a news anchor because she… “wasn’t fit for television.”

“If You’ve Never Failed, You’ve Never Tried Anything New”