Famous Flops--"How the Biggest Failures Became Icons of Success"

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True Narratives of Legends - Failure to Success

Chapter 1: Fierce but Fired: Oprah Winfrey

Chapter 2: The Man Who "Lacked Imagination": Walt Disney

Chapter 3: The Cut That Made Michael Jordan a Champion

Chapter 4: The Author, J.K. Rowling, Rejected by 12 Publishers

Chapter 5: The Wright Brothers: The Unending Dream

Chapter 6: Jobs, Steve Expelled from His Own Company

Chapter 7: Stephen King: A Rejected Trash Can Becomes a Bestseller

Chapter 8: Fashion Domination Begins Late with Vera Wang

Chapter 9: Soichiro Honda: From Factory Reject to Auto Giant in Chapter Nine

Chapter 10: Sara Blakely, Self-Made Billionaire, Selling Fax Machines

Chapter 11: Spencer Silver: A Failed Glue That Got Stuck His "failed" glue turned into Post-it Notes, which are used daily by millions of people.

Chapter 12: The Struggling Artist Who Transformed Communication: Samuel Morse

Chapter 13: Before establishing a chocolate empire, Milton Hershey went bankrupt

Chapter 14: Is Colonel Sanders Too Old to Be Successful? Rethink your thoughts.

Chapter 15: Jeff Bezos - Risking Everything for an Online Bookstore in Chapter Fifteen

Chapter 16: Albert Einstein - Accused of Failure Before Transforming Science in Chapter Sixteen

Chapter 17: Henry Ford: From Insolvency to Revolution in Industry
Before revolutionizing the automotive business, it failed five times.

Chapter 18: Marc Chavannes and Al Fielding: A Packaging Error That Was Solved

Chapter Nineteen: Thomas Edison: Edison's journey wasn't easy or glamorous. Many people are unaware of how many times he failed before succeeding.

Chapter Twenty: Steven Spielberg: He was a young filmmaker whose dreams were often ignored, whose creativity was underestimated, and whose first projects seemed doomed to failure.

Chapter Twenty-One: James Dyson: Unlike most stories of success that have beginning in boardrooms or factories, the story of James Dyson begins in a small workshop that is loaded with tools, spare parts, and an insatiable curiosity.

Chapter Twenty-Two: Fred Smith: The path that lay ahead of him was replete with challenges, blunders, and situations that had the potential to crush his spirit of entrepreneurship.

Chapter Twenty-Three: Howard Schultz: The path that Schultz took to convert Starbucks did not begin in a boardroom; rather, it began with a trip to Italy in the year 1983 to begin the process.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Additional Short Stories
Stories about fourteen people who had great success.

Chapter Twenty-Five: Now, For Some Humbling
Learn From Your Kids, in Order to Be a Success

Famous Flops--"How the Biggest Failures Became Icons of Success"