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Failure List

• Einstein was 4 years old before he could speak.

• Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school and was considered "unpromising."

• When Thomas Edison was a youngster, his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. He was counseled to go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality.

• F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his boss would not permit him to wait on customers because he "didn't have enough sense to close a sale."

• Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Celtics Hall-Of-Fame members Bill Russell and Bob Cousy suffered the same fate.

• Bob Cousy suffered the same fate, but he too is a Hall of Famer.

• A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas."

• Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade and had to repeat it because he did not complete the tests that were required for promotion.

The point?  DON’T GIVE UP…