To be successful in business or in life, I realized that we must continually take corrective action. Taking risks day after day can be extremely exhausting, especially when things don’t go my way. Therefore, whenever I am faced with a disappointing event or undesirable outcome, I NEVER FORGET these famous failures:

1.Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft, has literally changed the world’s work culture in the 21st century by simplifying the way computers are used. He happens to be the richest man in the world for the last decade. However, in the 1970s, before he started, he dropped out of Harvard University. The most ironic part is that he started a software company (soon to become Microsoft) by buying the software technology from “someone” for just $50 back then.

2. Abraham Lincoln, received no more than 5 years of formal education throughout his life. When he grew up, he went into politics and had 12 big flops before he was elected the 16th president of the United States of America.

3. Isaac Newton He was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. His work on optics and gravitation made him one of the greatest scientists the world has ever known. Many thought that Isaac was born a genius, but he was not! When he was young, he did very poorly in elementary school, so poorly that his teachers had no idea how to improve his grades.

4. Ludwig van Beethoven, a German composer of classical music, is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in history. His reputation has inspired, and in many cases intimidated, composers, musicians and audiences who came after him. Before the start of his career, Beethoven’s music teacher once said of him “as a composer, he is hopeless.” And during his career, he lost his hearing, but he managed to produce good music: a deaf man composing music, he is not ironic!

5.Thomas Edison who developed many devices that greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, with 1,093 US patents to his name. When he was a child, his teacher told him that he was too stupid to learn anything. When he set out on his own, he tried more than 9,000 experiments before successfully creating the first light bulb.

6. The Woolworth Company was a retail company that was one of the original five and dime stores. The first Woolworth store was founded in 1878 by Frank Winfield Woolworth and soon grew to become one of the world’s largest retail chains in the 20th century. Before starting his own business, Woolworth got a job at a dry goods store when he was 21 years old. But his employer wouldn’t let him serve any clients because he concluded that Frank “didn’t have enough common sense to serve clients.”

7. by acclamation, Michael Jordan He is the best basketball player of all time. A phenomenal athlete with a unique blend of grace, speed, power, artistry, improvisational ability, and insatiable competitive desire. Jordan single-handedly redefined the NBA superstar. Before joining the NBA, Jordan was just an ordinary person, so ordinary that he was cut from the high school basketball team due to his “lack of skill.”

8. Walt Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. Disney, one of the world’s best-known movie producers, founded a production company. The corporation, now known as The Walt Disney Company, generates average revenues of US$30 billion annually. Disney started his own business in the garage of his house and his first cartoon production went bankrupt. During his first press conference, a newspaper editor ridiculed Walt Disney because he had no good ideas in film production.

9. Winston Churchill He failed sixth grade. However, that never stopped him from working harder! He struggled and eventually became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II. Churchill is generally regarded as one of the greatest leaders in Britain and in world history. In a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002 to identify the “100 Greatest Britons”, Churchill was voted greatest of all by participants.

10. Steven Spielberg is an American film director. He has won 3 Academy Awards and is among the most successful filmmakers in history. Above all, Steven was recognized as the most financially successful film director of all time. During his childhood, Spielberg dropped out of high school. They persuaded him to come back and placed him in a class for people with learning disabilities. It only lasted a month and then he dropped out of school for good.

11. Albert Einstein He was a theoretical physicist widely considered to be the most important scientist of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 and “for his services to Theoretical Physics”. However, when Einstein was young, his parents thought he was mentally retarded. His grades in school were so bad that a teacher asked him to resign, saying, “Einstein, you’ll never amount to anything!”

12 In 1947, a year after his contract, marilyn monroe she was dropped by 20th Century-Fox because her producer thought she was unattractive and unable to act. That didn’t determine her at all! She kept going and was eventually recognized by the public as the most famous movie star, sex symbol, and pop icon of the 20th century.

13. John GrishamThe first novel by was rejected by sixteen agents and twelve publishers. He kept writing and writing until he became best known as a novelist and author for his modern legal plays. The media have coined him as one of the best new authors still alive in the 21st century.

14. Henry Ford‘s first two car companies failed. That didn’t stop him from incorporating Ford Motor Company and being the first to apply assembly-line manufacturing to the production of affordable cars in the world. It not only revolutionized industrial production in the United States and Europe, but also had a major influence on the economy and society of the 20th century. Its combination of mass production, high wages, and low prices for consumers has started a school of management known as “Fordism.” He became one of the three most famous and richest men in the world during his time.

15. Soichiro Honda he was rejected by the Toyota Motor Corporation during a job interview as an “engineer” after World War II. He continued without a job until his neighbors started buying his “homemade scooters”. Later, he set out on his own behalf to start his own company. Honda Today, the company has grown to become the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer and one of the most profitable automakers, surpassing giants like GM and Chrysler. With a global network of 437 subsidiaries, Honda develops, manufactures and markets a wide variety of products ranging from small general-purpose engines and scooters to specialty sports cars.

16.Akio Morita, founder of giant electrical household products, Sony Corporation, the first product was an electric rice cooker, it only sold 100 pots (because it burned rice instead of cooking). Today, Sony generates US$66 billion in revenue and ranks as the sixth largest electronics and electrical company in the world.