When You Fail, Don’t Give Up

These people didn’t.

• R.H.Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
• Novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published the first of his 564 books.
• Thomas Edison was thrown out of school in the early grades when the teachers decided he could not do the work.
• Harry S. Truman failed as a haberdasher.
• When Bob Dylan performed at a high school talent show, his classmates booed him off the stage.
• W. Clement Stone, successful insurance company executive and founder of Success magazine, was a high school drop out.