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  • After being cut from his high school basketball team, he went home locked himself in his room

  • and cried.

  • He wasn't able to speak until he was almost 4 years old and his teachers said he would

  • "never amount to much."

  • Was demoted from her job as a news anchor because she… “Wasn’t fit for television.”

  • Fired from a newspaper forlacking imaginationandhaving no original ideas”…

  • At age 11 he was cut from his team after being diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency

  • which made him smaller in stature than most kids his age.

  • At 30 years old he was left devastated and depressed after being unceremoniously removed

  • from the company he started.

  • A High School dropout, whose personal struggles with drugs and poverty culminated in an unsuccessful

  • suicide attempt

  • A teacher told him he was… “Too stupid to learn anythingand that he should go

  • into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality.

  • Rejected by Decca Recording studios, who saidwe don’t like their sound”… “They

  • have no future in show business"

  • His First Book Was Rejected By 27 Publishers.

  • His Fiancé Died, Failed In Business, Had A Nervous Breakdown And Was Defeated In 8

  • Elections.

  • If youve Never Failed, Youve Never Tried Anything New

After being cut from his high school basketball team, he went home locked himself in his room

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