| Einstein was four-years-old before he could speak. |
| Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school. |
| Beethoven's music teacher once said of him "as a composer he is hopeless." |
| When Thomas Edison was a boy his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. |
| F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry good store when he was 21, but his employer would not let him wait on customers because he "didn't have enough sense." |
| Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Boston Celtics Hall of Famers Bob Cousy and Bill Russell suffered the same fate. |
| A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas. |
| Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade. |
| Steven Spielberg dropped out of high school in his sophomore year. He was persuaded to come back and placed in a learning disabled class. He lasted a month and dropped out of school forever. |