TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR DAYDREAMS: From Oprah Winfreys scarred childhood to Bill Gates failed business ventures, these people have been through the grinder, and came out even better than before. Their stories stress one of the most important lessons of all: Never ever give up. Scroll through the list for some serious inspiration. Bill Gates first business failed. Yes, the richest person in the whole world couldnt make any money at first. Gates first company, Traf-O-Data (a device which could read traffic tapes and process the data), failed miserably. When Gates and his partner, Paul Allen, tried to sell it, the product wouldnt even work. Gates and Allen didnt let that stop them from trying again though. Heres how Allen explained how the failure helped them: Even though Traf-O-Data wasn’t a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft’s first product a couple of years late Albert Einstein didnt speak until he was four years old. Einstein didnt have the best childhood. In fact, many people thought he was just a dud. He never spoke for the first three years of his life, and throughout elementary school, many of his teachers thought he was lazy and wouldnt make anything of himself. He always received good marks, but his head was in the clouds, conjuring up abstract questions people couldnt understand. But he kept thinking and, well, he eventually developed the theory of relativity, which many of us still cant wrap our heads around. Jim Carrey used to be homeless. Carrey revealed to James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio that when he was 15, he had to drop out of school to support his family. His father was an unemployed musician and as the family went from lower middle class to poor, they eventually had to start living in a van. Carrey didnt let this stop him from achieving his dream of becoming a comedian: He went from having his dad drive him to comedy clubs in Toronto to starring in mega-blockbusters and being known as one of the best comedic actors of an era Bethany Hamilton had her arm bitten off by a shark. Hamilton started surfing when she was just a child. At age 13, an almost-deadly shark attack resulted in her losing her left arm. She was back on her surfboard one month later, and two years after that, she won first place in the Explorer Women’s Division of the NSSA National Championships. Talk about determination Benjamin Franklin dropped out of school at age ten. Franklins parents could only afford to keep him in school until his tenth birthday. That didnt stop the great man from pursuing his education. He taught himself through voracious reading, and eventually went on to invent the lightning rod and bifocals. Oh, and he became one of Americas Founding Fathers. benjamin franklin Richard Branson has dyslexia. Branson was a pretty bad student -- he didnt get good marks and he did poorly on standardized tests. Instead of giving up, he used the power of his personality to drive him to success. Today, Branson, known for developing Virgin Records and many of its more technologically advanced spinoffs, is the fourth richest person in the UK. richard branson Stephen Kings first novel was rejected 30 times. If it werent for Kings wife, Carrie may not have ever existed. After being consistently rejected by publishing houses, King gave up and threw his first book in the trash. His wife, Tabitha, retrieved the manuscript and urged King to finish it. Now, Kings books have sold over 350 million copies and have been made into countless major motion pictures. stephen king Oprah Winfrey gave birth at age 14 and lost her child. She is one of the most successful and richest people in the world today, but Winfrey didnt always have it so easy. She grew up in Milwaukee, Wis. and was repeatedly molested by her cousin, uncle and a family friend. She eventually ran away from home, and at age 14 gave birth to a baby boy who shortly died after. But Winfreys tragic past didnt stop her from becoming the force she is today. She excelled as an honors student in high school, and won an oratory contest which secured her a full scholarship to college. Now the entrepreneur and personality has the admiration of millions and a net worth of $2.9 billion. oprah Thomas Edison failed 1,000 times before creating the lightbulb. Although the exact number of tries has been debated, ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 attempts, its safe to say Edison tried and failed a whole lot before he successfully created his beacon of light. His response to his repeated failures? “I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work.” thomas edison Kris Carr turned her cancer into a business of hope and healing. In 2003, Karr was a 32-year-old New Yorker just enjoying life. But then, a regular checkup at her doctors office resulted in a diagnosis of a rare and incurable Stage IV cancer called epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, existing in her liver and lungs. Instead of succumbing to the disease, Carr decided to challenge her diagnosis head on. She attacked her cancer with a brand new nutritional lifestyle, and turned her experience into a series of successful self-help books and documentaries. Eventually, she launched her own wellness website, which is followed by over 40,000 people. Today, Karr is celebrating a decade of thriving with cancer, and is now revered as one of the most prominent experts on healthy living. Jay-Z couldnt get signed to any record labels. No one can stop Jay-Z. He came from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood and had big dreams to make it big as a rapper. Unfortunately, the rest of the world didnt agree with him at first. Not one record label would sign him. Yet that didnt stop him from creating his own music powerhouse. His label would eventually turn into the insanely lucrative Roc-A-Fella Records. Heres proof Jay-Z is on top: Forbes has estimated his net worth at $500 million, and TIME ranked him at one of their 2013 Most Influential People In The World. And hes married to Beyoncé.
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