Using Failure As A Stepping Stone Toward Success - Part 4

Charles Darwin was college drop out and wrote in his auto-biography, “I was considered by all my masters and by my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard for intellect”.

Walt Disney was fired by a news paper editor for lack of creative ideas and went bankrupt several times before opening Disneyland.

Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade and only became Prime Minister of England after a lifetime of defeats and setbacks.

Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, flunked out of college. He was described as both unable and unwilling to learn.

Famous Opera Star Enrico Caruso’s teacher said he had no voice at all and could not sing.

Scientist Louis Pasteur was a mediocre pupil and ranked 15 out of 22 in his chemistry class.

Henry Ford went broke five times before finally making it big.

Multi-Million Copy best-seller Jonathan Livingston Seagull was written by author Richard Bach. Before being published by Macmillan in 1970 it was turned down by 18 publishers. By 1975 it had sold over seven million copies in the U.S. alone.