Results: If At First You Don't Succeed...Part 1

Never let your failures in life define you or stop you. Learn from them and do something amazing, as these inspiring stories will prove. Albert Einstein, one of the greatest thinkers of our time, didn't speak until he was four-years old. He also failed his entrance exam to the Swiss Federal Polytechnic school located in Zurich at sixteen-years old. And, even his father, up until the time of his death, considered his son to be a major failure. After eventually graduating from college, Einstein actually worked as an insurance salesman, but quit after some time because he failed at that as well. Have you ever quit a job because you felt like a failure?

Colonel Harland Sanders was the late founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurants. Throughout his entire life, he failed in just about every endeavor he was involved in. However, at the age of sixty-five-years old, he set out with his famous chicken recipe and only a $105 social security check to his name, in an attempt to sell his franchise chicken model. 1,009 restaurants rejected him before one accepted his offer. Do you know someone (perhaps yourself) who had success later in life?

One of the most celebrated children's authors of all time is also one of the most famous failures. Dr. Seuss intended to earn his PhD in literature Lincoln College, Oxford, but failed and subsequently dropped out of school. After he wrote his first book, And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, it was rejected 28 separate times. But he didn't give up. By 1991, at the time of his death, he had sold over 600 million copies of his books in 20 different languages. Would you imagine after 28 rejections, someone would just give up?

Henry Ford is the father of the automobile, and quite possibly one of the most famous industrialists to have ever lived. He helped bring transportation to the masses in America, and subsequently throughout the world. But his start was far from noteworthy. Ford's first company went bankrupt. His second company also went south when, after a dispute with partners, he was forced to walk away with only the rights to his name. Using the second chance given to him by bankruptcy, Ford relaunches his company a third time, this time calling it the Ford Motor Company—and the rest is history. Do you believe in the saying "third time's a charm"?