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lescol Age: 36 3933 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Subject : successful people who have been fired Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, the company he co-founded. His second act turned out to be bigger and better than the first. During his time away from Apple, Jobs co-founded computer company NeXT, which was later acquired by Apple, and launched Pixar Animation Studios. When he returned to Apple nearly a decade later, he brought the innovation of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Like no likes.
	Posted on October, 25 2015 03:54:55 PM

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Walt Disney's newspaper editor told the aspiring cartoonist he wasn't creative enough.

That wasn't the last of his failures. Disney then acquired Laugh-O-Gram, an animation studio he later drove into bankruptcy. Finally, he decided to set his sights on a more profitable area: Hollywood.

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Posted on October, 25 2015 03:56:05 PM

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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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Posted on October, 25 2015 03:57:55 PM

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J.K. 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.

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Posted on October, 25 2015 03:59:01 PM

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg used his severance check to start his own company. Now he's one of the richest people in the country.

Bloomberg was a partner at Salomon Brothers, an investment bank. In 1998, they were bought out by the company that eventually became Citigroup. Bloomberg was let go, but not before receiving a hefty severance check.

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.

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Posted on October, 25 2015 04:00:04 PM

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Madonna lost her job at Dunkin Donuts for squirting jelly filling all over customers.

When Madonna dropped out of college and moved to New York to find fame, she had a rough start. Strapped for cash, she took a job at Dunkin' Donuts in Times Square. She didn't even last a day. After squirting jelly filling all over a customer, her managers gave her the boot.
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.

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lescol Age: 36 3933 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Thomas Edison secretly conducted experiments in his office at Western Union. Until one night in 1867, when Edison spilled some acid that ate through his entire floor. He got canned and decided to pursue inventing full-time. Edison received his first patent two years later, for the electric vote recorder. Like no likes.
	Posted on October, 25 2015 04:02:55 PM

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Robert Redford was a lazy, sloppy manual worker. Turns out, his talents belonged elsewhere.

As a teenager, Robert Redford was an unskilled worker at Standard Oil when a supervisor found him asleep on the job. Instead of firing him, they switched him to another department, where he continued to screw up. After smashing several cases of glass bottles, he was terminated.
Getting fired encouraged him to pursue his other dreams. He attended college at the University of Colorado and eventually moved to New York to become an actor.

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lescol Age: 36 3933 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Henry Ford: While Ford is today known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn’t an instant success. In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five time before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company. Like no likes.
	Posted on October, 25 2015 04:06:24 PM

lescol Age: 36 3933 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	R. H. Macy: Most people are familiar with this large department store chain, but Macy didn’t always have it easy. Macy started seven failed business before finally hitting big with his store in New York City. Like no likes.
	Posted on October, 25 2015 04:09:34 PM

lescol Age: 36 3933 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	F. W. Woolworth: Some may not know this name today, but Woolworth was once one of the biggest names in department stores in the U.S. Before starting his own business, young Woolworth worked at a dry goods store and was not allowed to wait on customers because his boss said he lacked the sense needed to do so. Like no likes.
	Posted on October, 25 2015 04:10:42 PM

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