Steve Jobs – The man behind Apple and a stream of tech.

Steve Jobs – The man behind Apple and a stream of tech.gadgets that have transformed the modern world such as the iPhone, iPad, iPod, and various Mac computers.
Jobs was a college dropout, and was also fired as a tech executive from the company he co-founded.
The co-founder of Apple and Pixar Animation Studios, later returned to Apple to guide the company in transforming itself to become the leader in the computer and cellphone industry.

 

Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the iCloud service at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, June 6, 2011.

Walt Disney – Creator of Mickey Mouse and winner of 22 Academy Awards.

He was a newspaper editor but got fired for lacking imagination and having no original ideas.

 

Walter Elias Disney

Bill Gates – The Founder and chairman of Microsoft.

He was a Harvard University dropout. He started a software company by purchasing the software technology for only US$50 back then.

 

Microsoft founder Bill Gates attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Jan. 26, 2012.

Thomas Edison failed 1,000 times before creating the lightbulb.

 


Although the exact number of tries has been debated, ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 attempts, it's safe to say Edison tried and failed a whole lot before he successfully created his beacon of light. His response to his repeated failures? “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was four years old.

 


Einstein didn't have the best childhood. In fact, many people thought he was just a dud. He never spoke for the first three years of his life, and throughout elementary school, many of his teachers thought he was lazy and wouldn't make anything of himself. He always received good marks, but his head was in the clouds, conjuring up abstract questions people couldn't understand. But he kept thinking and, well, he eventually developed the theory of relativity, which many of us still can't wrap our heads around.

Bill Gates' first business failed.

Yes, the richest person in the whole world couldn't make any money at first. Gates' first company, Traf-O-Data (a device which could read traffic tapes and process the data), failed miserably. When Gates and his partner, Paul Allen, tried to sell it, the product wouldn't even work. Gates and Allen didn't let that stop them from trying again though. Here's how Allen explained how the failure helped them: "Even though Traf-O-Data wasn’t a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft’s first product a couple of years later."