Melinda Beck tells us:
- J.K. Rowling was rejected by 12 publishers before a small London house picked up “Harry
Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.”
- Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor who said he “lacked imagination.”
- Michael Jordan was cut from his high-school varsity basketball team sophomore year.
- Decca Records turned down a contract with the Beatles, saying "We don't like their sound."
- It took Thomas Edison 1,000 tries before he invented the light bulb. (”I didn’t fail 1,000 times,” he told a reporter. “The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.”)