Ironic's!!

A dejected Hardward university drop out, started a small company by purchasing the technology for 50 US dollars. He, in turn, revolutionized the way computer is seen and used-Bill Gates

Youngster lost the job, defeated in 6 elections, failed in all the businesses, lost the girl, had a nervous break down and people thought he would just never make it- Abraham Lincoln

The Vice President of Columbia told him that he was never going to make it in the business. - Harrison Ford

His first book was rejected by 12 publishing houses and sixteen agents. - John Grisham

Turned down by a recording company saying "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out" -Beatles

Was told by his father that he would amount to nothing and be a disgrace to himself and his family - Charles Darwin

Told by a music teacher "as a composer he is hopeless" and and during his career, he lost his hearing- Beethoven

Was told that "he couldn't sing at all" -Enrico Caruso

Fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas" - Walt Disney

Were told by Publishers that "anthologies didn't sell" and the book was "too positive"-
Rejected a total of 140 times. Chicken Soup for the Soul. It now has 65 different titles and has sold over 80 million copies all over the world.

Told by a teacher he was "too stupid to learn anything"- Thomas Edison

Failed the sixth grade - Winston Churchill

Wasn't able to speak until he was almost 4 years old and his teachers said he would "never amount to much" - Albert Einstein

Did poorly in school and failed at running the family farm - Isaac Newton

Was not allowed to wait on customers in the store he worked in because "he didn't have enough sense" - F. W. Woolworth

Was cut from the high school basketball team, went home, locked himself in his room and cried - Michael Jordan

Producer told her she was "unattractive" and could not act - Marilyn Monroe

This book was rejected 18 times before it was published. It then sold over one million copies the first year-Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Auditioned for All My Children and got rejected, producers ridiculed her as - Julia Roberts

Dropped out of junior high school. He was persuaded to come back and was placed in a learning-disabled class. He only lasted a month and then dropped out of school forever- Steven Speilburg

First product was an electric rice cooker, only sold 100 cookers (because it burned rice rather than cooking).- Sony Corporation