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15 Extremely Successful Individuals That Overcame A Rough Past (NEVER GIVE UP) by naijaspice: 11:38pm On Dec 02, 2016
The path to success is not always smooth... Some people give up halfway because of some challenges which are mainly temporary. These group of people listed below are one of the greatest in their field but they really had a rough past ....
15 Extremely successful Individuals that overcame a rough PAST


1. Walt Disney


At 24, he had Oswaldo the Rabbit, his first successful cartoon character, stolen from him by Universal Studios. At 25, MGM told him no one would ever like Mickey Mouse. At one point in his twenties, Disney was so poor that he resorted to eating dog food....


2. Sylvester Stallone


While shopping Rocky around Hollywood, Stallone was so poor he tearfully sold his dog Butkus for $25. Once Rocky was purchased, he bought the bullmastiff back for $3,000 and even gave the buyer a small part in the film.

3. Steve Jobs


Although Jobs was a millionaire by 23, he became so disliked at Apple by the end of his twenties that his own company fired him. Jobs credited this devastating setback with helping him enter “one of the most creative periods” of his life.


4. J.K. Rowling


By the end of her twenties, Rowling was a divorced, unemployed single parent on welfare. After being rejected by eight publishers, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published right before her 32nd birthday and quickly became a best-seller.

5. Oprah Winfrey


Oprah bounced around various Baltimore news stations, including one that fired her for getting too emotionally invested in stories. Her demotion to daytime TV proved a blessing in disguise, and by 30 she had the highest-rated talk show in Chicago.

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Re: 15 Extremely Successful Individuals That Overcame A Rough Past (NEVER GIVE UP) by gbemi514: 12:23am On Dec 03, 2016
Even Dwayne Johnson

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