10 famous people whose failures have not stopped on the way to success

The road to success is rarely a straight and short. This is easily seen by reading the biography of little-known facts of those considered to be the darling of fortune. They have become those who have become, not because they did not have failures, but because of their failure did not stop.

Thomas Edison

The creation of the famous bulb preceded by thousands of failed inventions. In addition, at the beginning of the career of Edison was fired from a Western Union telegraph office. This happened after he had his chemical experiments with acid ruined furniture in the office of the chief.

Henry Ford

Ford with early adolescence loved cars. However, Ford Motor Company was not the first of his brainchild. Prior to that, he founded another company to produce cars - Detroit Automobile. Alas, she quickly went bankrupt. According to customer reviews, manufactured cars were terrible quality and thus expensive cost.

Steve Jobs

A few years after the Apple board of directors forced the co-founder of the company

Jobs leave his post. Later he founded the NeXT, a company for the production of computers and software, which is then swallowed Apple.

Arianna Huffington

In his 20s Arianna wrote the book and it was refused on the publication by 36 publishers. Subsequently, she became co-founder and chief editor of the popular Internet edition of The Huffington Post, as well as author of several bestsellers.

Anna Wintour

US Vogue chief editor of the magazine at the beginning of her career she worked as a junior editor for fashion Harper's Bazaar, where not last year. The reason for that were the original ideas Wintour, editor in chief who seemed too extravagant magazine.

Harland Sanders

The founder of KFC Harland Sanders for most of his life was a chronic loser. On account of his expulsion from the school in the seventh grade, the work of an assistant blacksmith, farmer, miner, firefighter, fireman, and an unsuccessful attempt to advocate career.

In 40 years, he began to prepare his famous chicken and to offer its customers of its gas stations, and then - guests own roadside motel. Things were going well until, while due to the new motorway is not dried up the flow of the motel customers. At that time Sanders was 65 years old. So he decided to sell the franchise restaurants on his trademark recipe and received more than a thousand failures before someone agreed. In 1964, Colonel KFC Corporation sold for $ 2 million.

Sam Walton

Walmart founder of the network started with the fact that the rented premises for 5 years for its first store. Walton began to build in him a unique corporate culture, which has made the store is very popular. And after 5 years the owner of the premises has refused to renew the lease agreement and gave untwisted in a shop to his son. Walton also had to start all over again in another city.

Walt Disney

Prior to becoming a legendary animator, Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star newspaper for the lack of creativity and lack of imagination. Then he opened his first animation studio Laugh-O-Gram, but she soon went bankrupt.

Bill Gates

In 17 years Gates together with Paul Allen formed a company Traf-O-Data, which specializes in reading road traffic and the preparation of reports for traffic engineers. Unfortunately, a lot of money to no avail.

Oprah Winfrey

Winfrey once worked as news reporter on TV channel Baltimore TV, where she was fired for being too emotional news feed. The verdict produced Baltimore TV, read: "Not suitable for use in news television programs."