Told by a music teacher "as a composer he is hopeless" - Beethoven
Told by a teacher he was "too stupid to learn anything" Thomas Edison
Producer told her she was "unattractive" and could not act - Marilyn Monroe
His first book was rejected by 12 publishing houses and sixteen agents. - John Grisham
Fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas" - Walt Disney
The Vice President of Columbia told this actor that he was never going to make it in the business. The actor? - Harrison Ford
Wasn't able to speak until he was almost 4 years old and his teachers said he would "never amount to much" - Albert Einstein
Turned down by a recording company saying "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out" They were talking about the Beatles
Rejected a total of 140 times. The book? Chicken Soup for the Soul. It now has 65 different titles and has sold over 80 million copies all over the world.
This book was rejected 18 times before it was published. It then sold over one million copies the first year. The book was Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
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