From Fred Astaire’s first screen test with MGM, these notes
survive, “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Not handsome. Can dance a
little.” Michael Jordan was once cut from his high school basketball team. “Colonel”
Harland Sanders’ Kentucky fried chicken recipe was turned down over a thousand times before he
found a restaurant willing to buy it. Several reputable recording studios rejected
the Beatles early in their career, saying they had no future in show business. Young
Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned home a private. He was
bankrupt twice and failed in 26 attempts at public office. Walt Disney was once
fired from his job on a newspaper because he reportedly lacked imagination and
had no original ideas. Albert Einstein was nearly four before he learned to
speak. He didn’t begin to read until he was seven. You don't succeed by avoiding failure. You succeed by learning from your mistakes.
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