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Posted: 07 May 2011 06:37 AM PDT ![]() Walt Disney’s newspaper editor told the aspiring cartoonist he wasn’t creative enough.![]() He and his brother moved to California and started producing a successful cartoon series. JK Rowling spent too much time at work brainstorming story ideas.![]() Her severance check helped support her over the next few years, when she finally decided to focus on writing. Today, she’s the multi-billionaire author of one of the most successful book series of all time. Mayor Bloomberg used his severance check to start his own company. Now he’s 18th richest person in the country.![]() He used that money to start his own financial services company. Today, he’s the country’s 18th richest person and, of course, the mayor of New York City. Anna Wintour says that everyone should lose his or her job at some point.![]() Madonna lost her job at Dunkin Donuts for squirting jelly filling all over customers.![]() The Material Girl went through several fast food and waitressing jobs before she was introduced to the city’s punk rock music scene in 1979.These low-paying gigs were necessary at first, but Madonna knew she was meant to be a star. A Baltimore TV producer told Oprah that she was “unfit for television news”![]() Winfrey was initially heartbroken. At the time, daytime TV was a huge step down from the evening news. Her sadness quickly faded as the show, People Are Talking, became a hit.That success help Oprah find her true calling as a talk show host. Jerry Seinfeld didn’t know he was fired until he showed up for a read-through and his part was missing from the script.![]() He was humiliated, but he went right back to performing at comedy clubs. After one performance, a talent scout for the Tonight Show was in the audience. Seinfeld landed a gig on the show and his career immediately took off. The New Yorker gave Truman Capote the boot after he insulted poet Robert Frost.![]() Two years later, Capote attended a reading by famed poet Robert Frost. Sick with a cold, Capote left in the middle of the meeting. Frost was deeply insulted, and knowing where Capote worked, he demanded that the magazine fire the boy. Getting fired didn’t hurt his career. He began to submit short stories to magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and Mademoiselle. A few years later, he published his first novel. Robert Redford was a lazy, sloppy manual worker. Turns out, his talents belonged elsewhere.![]() Ford didn’t want Lee Iacocca, so he brought his ideas to Chrysler.![]() Iacocca was soon courted by Chrysler, which was in danger of going out of business. He took out a huge loan from the government and used it to revive the company. He brought several of his ignored ideas from Ford over to Chrysler, like the Dodge Caravan and the Plymouth Voyager. He remained CEO of the company until 1992 and was credited with its rise from failure. Ever heard of Handy Dan? It’s the home-improvement chain that fired Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank right before they started Home Depot. It shut down in 1989.![]() The two men decided to start their own home-improvement store based on an idea they’d had while at Handy Dan: an entire store of discounts. They called it Home Depot. In less than a decade, they’d opened over 100 stores and made over $2.7 billion in sales. WNBC pulled Howard Stern off the air for a super racy sketch.![]() Fortunately, he found XM was a better home for his talent. After his show debuted, millions of devoted Stern fans switched to Sirius. He now pulls in about $70 million a year. The manager of the Grand Ole Opry told Elvis he was better off driving trucks.![]() Luckily for modern music, he didn’t. Presley continued to book shows in the area and eventually landed a spot on a tour with Hank Snow, the then biggest star in country music. Thomas Edison secretly conducted experiments in his office at Western Union.![]() He got canned and decided to pursue inventing full-time. Edison received his first patent two years later, for the electric vote recorder. In the 1980s, Mark Cuban lost his job as a salesman at computer store. That was the last time he worked for someone else.![]() Shortly after his termination, Cuban started his first company, MicroSolutions. Since then, he’s made over $2.4 billion. |
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