Who Said You Couldn't Do It?

When Thomas Edison was a boy his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21 but his employers would not let him wait on a customer because he, “didn’t have enough sense.”
A newspaper editor fired Walt DIsney because he had, “no good ideas.”
Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.
Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.
Beethoven’s music teacher once said of him, “As a composer, he is hopeless.”
Caruso’s music teacher told him, “You can’t sing, you have no voice at all.”
The director of the Imperial Opera in Vienna told Madame Schumann Heink that she would never be a singer and advised her to buy a sewing machine.
Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college.
Werner von Braun flunked 9th grade algebra.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd had retired from the Navy, as “Unfit for service” until he flew over both poles.
Louis Pasterur was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College.
Abraham Lincoln entereds the Black Hawk War as a Captain and came out as a private.
Louisa May Alcott was told by an editor that she could never write anything that had popular appeal.
Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.

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