Incredibly
Successful People Who Started Out As Failures (2)
Taylor Swift
She may have only been 11 years old at
the time, but the young and driven TSwift struggled at first to find a record
label in Nashville, Tennessee, that would sign her. During a middle school
spring break, she took a demo CD of her singing
karaoke covers of country stars
Dolly Parton, the Dixie Chicks and LeAnn Rimes to Music Row and handed copies
to as many music label receptionists as she could, but said she wasn't signed
because "everyone in that town
wanted to do what I wanted to do." She clearly found her niche,
though -- this musical princess has since learned how to play quite a few
instruments, taken over the country and pop-rock scene, and openly defied one the most popular
music streaming companies.
Stephen King
This wildly successful American author
of all things horror and suspense almost didn't get his big break -- 30 times!
It was with his wife Tabby's help that he was finally able to
convince Doubleday to publish Carrie. He has since become
the 19th best-selling author of all time.
Harland David Sanders
Our favorite colonel from Kentucky
Fried Chicken sure had to fight the good fight to get his secret recipe into
the restaurant world. He wasrejected a whopping 1,009 times before he finally got
that fried chicken to taste just right. Talk about perseverance.
Charles Schultz
The famous cartoonist who brought the
world the "Peanuts" comic strip experienced quite a bit of rejection
early in his career. None of the cartoon drawings he designed for his high
school yearbook were ever selected to be published, and later Walt Disney
turned him down for a job. It looks like it's a good thing he believed that
"you can't create humor
out of happiness."
Elvis Presley
Before the King of Rock 'n' Roll hit it
big, he was told by the Grand Ole Opry manager in Nashville that he would be better off going back
to his job as a truck driver than pursuing a
career in music. Elvis many have never returned to that venue for another
concert, but it's obvious he didn't have to go back to prove Jim Denny wrong.
J.K. Rowling
Before J.K. Rowling hit it big with Harry
Potter,
she was a broke, divorced single mother struggling to get by on welfare. In a
matter of five years, the series took off, leading her to become the first billionaire
author
The Huffington Post | By Alena Hall.
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