The Top Ten Failures of All Time?

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Top Ten Failures Of All Time

1. The engineer who neglected to design a reverse gear in the 1st car he manufactured.
2. The group turned down by Decca Records because "guitars are passe"
3. The illustrator told by his newspaper editor to pursue another line of work.
4. The skinny kid who hated the way he looked and was always being beaten up by bullies.
5. The seriously ill, deeply in debt composer who in desperation wrote an oratario in a few hours.
6. The bald ,obese deformed eccentric who became a reclusive thinker.
7. The orchestra conductor-composer who made his greatest contributions after becoming deaf.
8. The politician who lost his 1st seven elections.
9. The boy everyone thought was mute because his stutter was so bad he never spoke until he was a teenager.
10. The woman born deaf and blind who became a great writer and philanthropist and once said, " I thank God for my handicap".

1. Henry Ford
2. The Beatles
3. Walt Disney
4. Charles Atlas
5. George Frederick Handel
6. Socrates
7. Ludwig Von Beethoven
8. Abraham Licoln
9. James Earl Jones
10. Helen Keller

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