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Dismissed from drama school with a note that read
"Wasting her time. She's too shy to put her best foot forward"
Turned down by the Decca recording company
who said: "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out"
A failed soldier, farmer and real estate agent
At 38 years old he went to work for his father as a handyman
Cut from the high school basketball team
He went home, locked himself in his room and cried.
A teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything
He should go into a field where he might succeed
by virtue of his pleasant personality
Fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination"
and had "no original ideas".
His fiancée died, he failed in business twice
he had a nervous breakdown
and he was defeated in eight elections.
I've you've never failed, you've never lived.