Successful People Who Have Been Fired # Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, the company he co-founded. His second act turned out to be bigger and better than the first. # Walt Disneys newspaper editor told the aspiring cartoonist he wasnt creative enough. # In the 1980s, Mark Cuban lost his job as a salesman at computer store. That was the last time he worked for someone else. # J.K. Rowling spent too much time at work brainstorming story ideas. # Mayor Michael Bloomberg used his severance check to start his own company. Now hes one of the richest people in the country # Woody Allen fired Annabelle Gurwitch from his play and told her she looked retarded. # Madonna lost her job at Dunkin Donuts for squirting jelly filling all over customers. # A Baltimore TV producer told Oprah Winfrey that she was unfit for television news. # Jerry Seinfeld didnt know he was fired until he showed up for a read-through and his part was missing from the script. # Sallie Krawcheck, often called one of Wall Streets most powerful women, was fired from Bank of America in 2011. # The New Yorker gave Truman Capote the boot after he insulted poet Robert Frost. Robert Redford was a lazy, sloppy manual worker. Turns out, his talents belonged elsewhere. # Before being named NFL Coach of the Year, Bill Belichick was kicked to the curb by the Cleveland Browns. # Ford didnt want Lee Iacocca, so he brought his ideas to Chrysler. # Right before they started Home Depot, co-founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank were fired from their jobs. # WNBC pulled Howard Stern off the air for a super racy sketch. # The manager of the Grand Ole Opry told Elvis he was better off driving trucks. # Thomas Edison secretly conducted experiments in his office at Western Union
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