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"Colonel Sanders had the construction of a new road put him out of
business in 1967. He went to over 1,000 places trying to sell his
chicken recipe before he found a buyer interested in his 11 herbs
and spices. Seven years later, at the age of 75, Colonel Sanders
sold his fried chicken company for a finger-lickin' $15 million!"

-- from A Cup of Chicken Soup for the
Soul<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558749470/sr=8-1/qid=1146544838/ref...>
by Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen

Dear friends,

Yes, you can! Never give up believing in yourself. Whenever you
doubt yourself, remember the many amazing stories below of failure
turned into fame by amazing people we all know and respect. Every
one of us can make a big difference if we only choose to believe
in ourselves and never give up. Please help to spread these inspiring
stories to all you know so that both individually and collectively
we might more fully live our awesome potential. And you have a great
day!

With very best wishes, Fred Burks for PEERS<http://www.peerservice.org>
and the WantToKnow.info Team<http://www.wanttoknow.info/aboutus>
Former language interpreter<http://www.wanttoknow.info/fredburksresigns>
for Presidents Bush and Clinton

P.S. For the inspiring story of how I came to interpret for presidents
and other top dignitaries, click
here<http://www.wanttoknow.info/051119fredburkspresidentialinterpreter>.
And for an amazing one-minute video showing now-famous people who
turned failure to fame, click
here<http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/life_risk>.

Inspiring Stories of Failure Turned Into Fame

Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally
succeeded.

Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his
own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher
called him hopeless as a composer.

Colonel Sanders had the construction of a new road put him out of
business in 1967. He went to over 1,000 places trying to sell his
chicken recipe before he found a buyer interested in his 11 herbs
and spices. Seven years later, at the age of 75, Colonel Sanders
sold his fried chicken company for a finger-lickin' $15 million!

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas.
Disney also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.

Charles Darwin, father of the theory of evolution, gave up a medical
career and was told by his father, bYou care for nothing but shooting,
dogs, and rat catching.b In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, bI was
considered by my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the
common standard in intellect.

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didnbt
read until he was seven. His teacher described him as bmentally
slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams.b He was
expelled and refused admittance to Zurich Polytechnic School. The
University of Bern turned down his Ph.D. dissertation as being
irrelevant and fanciful.

The movie Star Wars was rejected by every movie studio in Hollywood
before 20th-Century Fox finally produced it. It went on to be one
of the largest grossing movies in film history.

Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies
and ranked 15 out of 22 in chemistry.

When NFL running back Herschel Walker was in junior high school,
he wanted to play football, but the coach told him he was too small.
He advised young Herschel to go out for track instead. Never one
to give up, he ignored the coach's advice and began an intensive
training program to build himself up. Only a few years later,
Herschel Walker won the Heisman trophy.

When General Douglas MacArthur applied for admission to West Point,
he was turned down, not once but twice. But he tried a third time,
was accepted and marched into the history books.

After Fred Astairebs first screen test, the memo from the testing
director of MGM, dated 1933, said, bCanbt act! Slightly bald! Can
dance a little!b Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his
Beverly Hills home.

The father of the sculptor Rodin [The Thinker
Statue<http://www.statue.com/the-thinker-statue.html>] said, bI
have an idiot for a son.b Described as the worst pupil in the school,
Rodin failed three times to secure admittance to the school of art.
His uncle called him uneducable.

Babe Ruth, considered by sports historians to be the greatest athlete
of all time and famous for setting the home run record, also holds
the record for strikeouts.

Eighteen publishers turned down Richard Bachbs Jonathan Livingston
Seagull, before Macmillan finally published it in 1970. By 1975 it
had sold more than seven million copies in the U.S. alone.

Margaret Mitchell's classic Gone with the Wind was turned down by
more than twenty-five publishers.

Richard Hooker worked for seven years on his humorous war novel,
M*A*S*H, only to have it rejected by 21 publishers before Morrow
decided to publish it. It became a runaway bestseller, spawning a
blockbusting movie and highly successful television series.

When the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book was completed, it was
turned down by thirty-three publishers in New York and another
ninety at the American Booksellers Association convention in Anaheim,
California, before Health Communications, Inc., finally agreed to
publish it. The major New York publishers said, "It is too nicey-nice"
and "Nobody wants to read a book of short little stories." Since
that time more than 8 million copies of the original Chicken Soup
for the Soul book have been sold. The series, which has grown to
thirty-two titles, in thirty-one languages, has sold more than 53
million copies.

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis
Presley after one performance. He told Presley, bYou ainbt goinb
nowhereb& son. You ought to go back to drivinb a truck.b Elvis
Presley went on to become the most popular singer in America.

Dr. Seuss' first children's book, And to Think That I Saw it on
Mulberry Street, was rejected by twenty-seven publishers. The
twenty-eighth publisher, Vanguard press, sold six million copies
of the book.

Never give up believing in yourself!!!

The above inspirational stories were compiled from two excellent
books by Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen:

Chicken Soup for the Writer's
Soul<http://www.amazon.com/Chicken-Soup-Writers-Soul-Rekindle/dp/155874769...>
and A Cup of Chicken Soup for the
Soul<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558749470/sr=8-1/qid=1146544838/ref...>

Special Addition: For an amazing one-minute video showing now-famous
people who never gave up and ended up completely turning failure
to fame, click here<http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/life_risk>.
And for a simple technique which might help you get there, learn
about EFT at this link<http://www.youtube.com/user/eftwizard>.

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