Overnight successes...

Need some inspiration from those "overnight successes" that failed many times before making it big...

Henry Ford - his early businesses failed and left him broke five times before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company

R. H. Macy - Macy started seven failed business before finally hitting it big with his store in New York City

Harland David Sanders- Perhaps better known as Colonel - his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it
Walt Disney- He was fired by a newspaper editor because, “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas"

Thomas Edison- In his early years, teachers told Edison he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design that worked

Oprah Winfrey- fired from her job as a television reporter because she was “unfit for tv”

Fred Astaire- In his first screen test, the testing director of MGM noted that Astaire, “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little

Marilyn Monroe- told by modeling agents that she should instead consider being a secretary

Theodor Seuss Giesel- 27 different publishers rejected Dr. Seuss’s first book To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

Stephen King- The first book by this author, the iconic thriller Carrie, received 30 rejections, finally causing King to give up and throw it in the trash. His wife fished it out and encouraged him to resubmit it, and the rest is history

J. K. Rowling- Rowling may be rolling in a lot of Harry Potter dough today, but before she published the series of novels she was nearly penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel. Rowling went from depending on welfare to survive to being one of the richest women in the world in a span of only five years through her hard work and determination.