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Famous Failures: Hundreds of Hot Shots Who Got Rejected, Flunked Out, Worked Lousy Jobs, Goofed Up, or Did Time in Jail Before Achieving Phenomenal Successx$6.93
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Just graduated with no prospects whatsoever? Been fired from your job? Rejected from a snazzy college? Looking for that next big break but coming up empty handed? Fear not, you’re in excellent company . . . • Albert Einstein failed the entrance exams to the Swiss Polytechnic Institute. • J. K. Rowling lived on welfare in an apartment infested with mice. • Muhammad Ali graduated 376th from a high school class of 391 students. • Julia Roberts auditioned for All My Children but didn’t get the part. • Dick Cheney flunked out of Yale University—twice. • And hundreds more! Each page of Famous Failures features a headline revealing the major failure of a person who later became phenomenally successful, and the smaller type at the bottom of each page explains that person's remarkable achievements. It all goes to show that no one has made the climb to the top without encountering an avalanche along the way. Reading just a few pages of this book makes you want to go back out there and try, try again.
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A terrifically great read
By A14OJS0VWMOSWO on 2007-04-07
"Famous Failures" is a hefty little 288-page compendium showcasing descriptive vignettes of hundreds of famous and successful people in the fields of entertainment, sports, science, politics, and literature who all shared one thing in common - they experienced failure. From Albert Einstein who failed the entrance exams to the Swiss Polytechnic Institute, to J. K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter novels) who was so impoverished that she lived on welfare in an apartment infested with mice, to Sharon Stone who could not get a date to her own highschool prom dance, to Dick Cheney who flunked out of Yale University (twice!), to John Wayne who was rejected from the United States Naval Academy, to Steve Jobs (founder of Apple Computer) who dropped out of Reed College in his freshman year, "Famous Failures" lists the well known and well respected who sometime in their lives and careers got rejected, flunked out, worked lousy jobs, goofed up, did time in jail, or had other kinds of failure experiences and frustrations before achieving the successes for which they are now know. A terrifically great read, "Famous Failures" is especially recommended for anyone getting discouraged about overcoming the seeming failures in their own lives and career paths.
Motivator
By A3INF3D3UJTQI6 on 2007-05-20
This book is interesting and motivating. It is neat to know how some of these famous people failed before making it to where they are today.
Inspirational, interesting, and irreverant
By A8S1SVNX5BWUW on 2007-08-04
A fascinating book filled with stories of little-known failures and foibles of the famous and wealthy. It's guaranteed to make you feel better about your own false starts and help you back on the road to success.
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