When you fail, don’t give up. These people didn’t:
– R.H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
– Novelist John Creasy got 753 rejection slips before he published the first of his 564 books.
– Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in the early grades when the teachers decided he could
not do the work.
– Harry S. Truman failed as a haberdasher.
– When Bob Dylan performed at high school talent show, his classmates booed him off the stage.
– W. Clement Stone, successful insurance company executive and founder of Success magazine,
was a high school dropout.