16
Wildly Successful People Who Overcame Huge Obstacles To Get There
You've heard it before: "If at first you don't succeed, try
again." Sometimes you may feel like that's just a saying, but it is
absolutely not. The 16 incredible stories below show how even horrible
tragedies and setbacks can help fuel a drive for success.
From Oprah Winfrey's 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 couldn't 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 wouldn't even work. Gates
and Allen didn't let that stop them from trying again though. Here's 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 later.”
Albert
Einstein didn't speak until he was four years old.
Einstein didn't 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 wouldn't make anything of himself.
He always received good marks, but his head was in the clouds, conjuring up abstract
questions people couldn't understand. But he kept thinking and, well, he
eventually developed the theory of relativity, which many of us still can't
wrap our heads around.
Jim
Carrey used to be homeless.
Carrey revealed to James Lipton
on "Inside the Actor's 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 didn't 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.
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