Who told you it's too late?
Lady Gaga - When she was finally signed onto a major record label, Gaga was dropped and only after three months of being signed.
Walt Disney - Was fired from the Kansas City Star in 1919 because, his editor said, he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”
Elvis Presley - After a performance at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, Elvis was told by the concert hall manager that he was better off returning to Memphis and driving trucks (his former career).
JK Rowling - She got fired when working at the London office of Amnesty International because she would write stories on her work computer all day long.
Michael Bloomberg - Was let go when he was working as a partner at Salomon Brothers, an investment bank. Specifically, it was after the company was bought out by the company that eventually became Citigroup in 1998. His severance check is what he used to jump start his career, which has now led him to become the 18th richest person.
Anna Wintour - While a junior fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar, Wintour did lots of shoots, but apparently Tony Mazalla thought they were too edgy, and so she got fired after 9 months. After which she became fashion editor at Viva.
Oprah Winfrey - She was an evening news reporter and apparently got fired because she couldn’t sever her emotions from her stories. Eventually she was fired from the producer of Baltimore’s WJZ-TV.
Jerry Seinfeld - He was fired after a poor performance on his very minor role on the sitcom Benson. Apparently no one told him he had been fired and he only found out about it when he showed up for a read-through and discovered his part was missing from the script.
Howard Stern - He was fired by NBC when he was working as a DJ on WNBC. Then he found XM and the rest is history.
Thomas Edison - He worked at Western Union where he used to secretly conduct experiments. Then, one night in 1867, he spilled some acid and it ate through the entire floor. He was fired and subsequently decided to just pursue inventing full time.
Kerry Washington - Before making it on Scandal, she had done two pilots. The shows of those pilots got picked up, but unfortunately Kerry was replaced in both shows by a different actress.
Steve Jobs - Jobs was fired from his own company.
Bill Gates - When he dropped out of Harvard he started a business with Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data, which flopped. Luckily, they tried their hand at business again and this time Microsoft was born.
Albert Einstein - He didn’t speak until he was four and didn’t read until he was seven. He was subsequently expelled from school and was not admitted to the Zurich Polytechnic School. Long story short, he came around.
Charles Darwin - Was not hell-bent on becoming a scientist his whole life, thanks to his dad, who called him lazy and too dreamy. Darwin once wrote, “I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect.”
Steven Spielberg - Was rejected from the University of Southern California School of Theater, Film and Television three times. He was eventually accepted by another school, a school which he dropped out of to pursue directing. In 2002, Spielberg finally completed his BA.
Michael Jordan - He was cut from his high school basketball team. He once said, “I have missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I have missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Femi Adetayo – Was consistently sick till age 6, Could not speak English till age 6 and was unable to read till about 10 years old. Repeat class in primary school twice, wrote WAEC 4 times, sat for JAMB 4 times, lost his apartment twice and had to sleep in security post in his church, hawked cheap soap and powder on the streets of Lagos.
My name is Femi Adetayo and who told you its too late?
Blog: www.onestopmotivate.com
Twitter:@adeamc
Instagram: Femiadetayo
Walt Disney - Was fired from the Kansas City Star in 1919 because, his editor said, he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”
Elvis Presley - After a performance at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, Elvis was told by the concert hall manager that he was better off returning to Memphis and driving trucks (his former career).
JK Rowling - She got fired when working at the London office of Amnesty International because she would write stories on her work computer all day long.
Michael Bloomberg - Was let go when he was working as a partner at Salomon Brothers, an investment bank. Specifically, it was after the company was bought out by the company that eventually became Citigroup in 1998. His severance check is what he used to jump start his career, which has now led him to become the 18th richest person.
Anna Wintour - While a junior fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar, Wintour did lots of shoots, but apparently Tony Mazalla thought they were too edgy, and so she got fired after 9 months. After which she became fashion editor at Viva.
Oprah Winfrey - She was an evening news reporter and apparently got fired because she couldn’t sever her emotions from her stories. Eventually she was fired from the producer of Baltimore’s WJZ-TV.
Jerry Seinfeld - He was fired after a poor performance on his very minor role on the sitcom Benson. Apparently no one told him he had been fired and he only found out about it when he showed up for a read-through and discovered his part was missing from the script.
Howard Stern - He was fired by NBC when he was working as a DJ on WNBC. Then he found XM and the rest is history.
Thomas Edison - He worked at Western Union where he used to secretly conduct experiments. Then, one night in 1867, he spilled some acid and it ate through the entire floor. He was fired and subsequently decided to just pursue inventing full time.
Kerry Washington - Before making it on Scandal, she had done two pilots. The shows of those pilots got picked up, but unfortunately Kerry was replaced in both shows by a different actress.
Steve Jobs - Jobs was fired from his own company.
Bill Gates - When he dropped out of Harvard he started a business with Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data, which flopped. Luckily, they tried their hand at business again and this time Microsoft was born.
Albert Einstein - He didn’t speak until he was four and didn’t read until he was seven. He was subsequently expelled from school and was not admitted to the Zurich Polytechnic School. Long story short, he came around.
Charles Darwin - Was not hell-bent on becoming a scientist his whole life, thanks to his dad, who called him lazy and too dreamy. Darwin once wrote, “I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect.”
Steven Spielberg - Was rejected from the University of Southern California School of Theater, Film and Television three times. He was eventually accepted by another school, a school which he dropped out of to pursue directing. In 2002, Spielberg finally completed his BA.
Michael Jordan - He was cut from his high school basketball team. He once said, “I have missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I have missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Femi Adetayo – Was consistently sick till age 6, Could not speak English till age 6 and was unable to read till about 10 years old. Repeat class in primary school twice, wrote WAEC 4 times, sat for JAMB 4 times, lost his apartment twice and had to sleep in security post in his church, hawked cheap soap and powder on the streets of Lagos.
My name is Femi Adetayo and who told you its too late?
Blog: www.onestopmotivate.com
Twitter:@adeamc
Instagram: Femiadetayo
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