
Told by a music teacher "as a composer he is hopeless" - Beethoven
Told by a teacher he was "too stupid to learn anything" Thomas Edison
Told by a Producer she was "unattractive" and could not act - Marilyn Monroe
His first book was rejected by 12 publishing houses and sixteen agents. - John Grisham
Fired from a newspaper, he "lacked imagination and had no original ideas" - Walt Disney
