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Are You A Major Failure Like
Albert Einstein, J.K. Rowling,
Muhammad Ali, Paul McCartney,
Meredith Vieira, or Lance Armstrong?

Just graduated with no prospects whatsoever? Been fired from your job? Rejected from a snazzy college? Looking for that next big break but coming up empty handed? Fear not, you're in excellent company . . .

• Albert Einstein failed the entrance exams to the Swiss Polytechnic Institute.
• J. K. Rowling lived on welfare in an apartment infested with mice.
• Muhammad Ali graduated 376th from a high school class of 391 students.
• Julia Roberts auditioned for All My Children but didn't get the part.
• Dick Cheney flunked out of Yale University—twice.
• Lance Armstrong was fired from the professional French bicycling team.
• Sharon Stone could not get a date to her high school prom.
• John Wayne was rejected from the United States Naval Academy.
• Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College in his freshman year.
• Meredith Vieira was fired from a television station in Providence, Rhode Island.

In Famous Failures by Joey Green (Lunatic Press, $10.95), you’ll discover hundreds of hot shots who got rejected, flunked out, worked lousy jobs, goofed up, or did time in jail before achieving phenomenal success.

What do Eddie Murphy, Candice Bergen, and Ted Turner share in common? They were all expelled from school. Murphy was expelled from high school for forging a report card. Bergen was expelled from the University of Pennsylvania after failing two courses. And Turner was expelled from Brown University for smuggling a young woman into his dorm room.

Rejection? Frank Herbert’s first novel, Dune, was rejected by thirteen publishing houses. Alex Haley submitted his short stories to magazines for eight years and received nothing but rejection letters. Rod Serling’s first forty freelance scripts for radio dramas were all rejected.

Stuck in a lousy job? Fear not. Aristotle Onassis worked as a telephone switchboard operator in Buenos Aires. Sean Connery worked as a milkman. Brad Pitt stood outside the fast-food restaurant El Pollo Loco, wearing a giant chicken costume. Some people couldn’t even keep a lousy job. Robert Redford was fired from his job driving a forklift at a Standard Oil refinery.

This book is filled with priceless gems that prove failure is no obstacle to success. Eminem failed ninth grade three times. Hillary Clinton flunked the Washington, D.C., bar exam. John McCain graduated 895th out of a class of 900 students from the United States Naval Academy.

Famous Failures by Joey Green is the ultimate celebration of failure . . . as a necessary stepping-stone to success. With 288 pages, this book makes the perfect gift to inspire the graduating senior in your life. Famous Failures is available at bookstores everywhere or through the internet at www.amazon.com.

The Famous Failures Quiz
Match the Famous Person with their Failure . . .