Famous Flops--"How the Biggest Failures Became Icons of Success"
ebook ∣ Maria Morrison's--Unique Topics
By Maria Morrison
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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