Who is it?

• Struck out a major league record 1,330 times.

Babe Ruth

Who is it?

• Endured over 1000 rejections before finding a restaurant that would work with him.

Col. Sanders

Who is it?

• Re-wrote music when he was unable to overcome his awkwardness with a violin.

Beethoveen

Who is it?

• Teacher described him as “too stupid to learn anything.”

Who is it?

• Could not speak until age 4. Could not read until age 7. Teacher described him as “mentally slow” and “adrift.”

Albert Einstein

Who is it?

• Flunked the 6th grade and didn’t taste true success until age 62.

Winston Churchill

Who is it?

• Cut from his high School basketball team – went home, locked himself into his bedroom and cried. Later played in the NBA, missed 9000 shots and missed 26 game winning baskets.

Michael Jordan

Who is it?

• Was told at an audition that he should give up singing and go back to driving trucks for a living.

Elvis Presley

Who is it?

• She was demoted from her job as a news anchor because she “wasn’t fit for television”

Oprah Winfrey

Who is it?

• Left devastated after being removed from the company he founded at age 30

Steve Jobs

• Steve Jobs

Who is it?

• Turned down by a record company that told them “Guitar music is on the way out”

Who is it?

• Rejected by 12 Publishers

J.K. Rowling

Who is it?

• Fired from a newspaper for lack of ideas.

Walt Disney

Failure takes many forms … It doesn’t work It works well, but no one wants it It works fine, but someone else’s works much better It works, but the timing is wrong

Failure is critical to the experimental process It’s how designers, inventors and scientists prove themselves

wrong Without it, people and organizations become stale, stagnant

and uninventive Failure makes our ideas stronger, but only if we are willing to

learn from it

What does it mean to me?

• YOU are a failure.– You fell down when you learned to walk.– You nearly drowned when you learned to swim.– You fell over when the training wheels came off.

• Failure was your gateway to success. It taught you what doesn’t work and what to avoid in future attempts.

Walt Disney

• Went Bankrupt at age 22 after a failure of a cartoon series– Came to Hollywood with $40 in his pocket

• After a successful run with a character named “Oswald the Luck Rabbit”, Walt leaned he did have ownership of the character and all the artists who worked for him left– Developed a new character named “Mickey

Mouse”

Walt Disney

• Tried to sell the idea of Mickey Mouse to MGM studios and was told it would never work– Mickey is now the most famous cartoon character in

the world• During a sneak peak of Snow White and the seven

dwarfs to college students, the audience got up and left halfway through the movie.– Turned out the students had a dorm curfew and had to

leave. Snow White became one of the most successful animated movies of all time

Disneyland

• Banks would not finance the construction because banks don’t lend money for Dreams– Raised the money himself

• 11,000 tickets were given away for opening day. The tickets were so easy to copy that nearly 30,000 people showed up.– One person was selling tickets at the back of the

park for $5 and put a ladder over the fence to sneak them in

Disneyland• The plumbing was not finished so toilets and

drinking fountains did not work.• The restaurants ran out of food• The asphalt was not fully set and it was so hot that

the tar was melting and stealing high heel shoes off of ladies feet!

• Autopia had no rails so people could drive the cars anywhere they wanted – and they did.

• It was predicted that Disneyland would fail and be closed within the first year.

Disney Revenue

• The average annual profit for Disneyland is estimated at $23 million per year.

• The average income for all of Disney is $41 Billion per year

• Disneyland alone provides 23,000 jobs• Disneyworld provides 60,000 jobs

Disney Quotes

• "It is good to have a failure while you are young because it teaches you so much.

For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody,And once you've lived through the worst,You're never quite as vulnerable afterwards.

Disney Quotes

• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

Disney Quotes

• Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.