Using Failure As A Stepping Stone Toward Success-Part 2

Actor Luke Perry was rejected 216 times for parts.

When fired by the Grand Ole Opry Elvis Presley was told by the manager “You ain’t goin no where son”.

Writer John Grisham had his first novel, “A Time to Kill” rejected by 25 different publishers.

Oliver Goldsmith got 26 rejection slips on “The First Wives Club”.

New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman was 21 points down in the polls on Oct 1, just a month before her election.

Rush Limbaugh was fired from 7 different jobs.

Relationship expert Barbara De Angelis has been divorced 5 times, once from another relationship expert by the name of John Gray.

Home run king Babe Ruth also holds the record for strike outs (1,330).

Accu Weather’s Joel Meyers developed a list of 15,000 clients. But he had to contact 25,000 potential clients in order to get his first 100.

Multi-Million copy best-seller “Chicken Soup for the Soul” was rejected by 132 publishers