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The Road to Success is Paved with Failure : How Hundreds of Famous People Triumphed Over Inauspicious Beginnings, Crushing Rejection, Humiliating Defeats and Other Speed Bumps Along Life's Highway
This is a fun-filled, fact-filled, star-studded celebration of failure as a necessary stepping stone on the road to success. It recounts stories of the rich and famous who met with adversity, bad luck and misfortune at the start of their careers.
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288 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2001
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About the author
Joey Green
81 books31 followersJoey Green, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, is the author of more than sixty (yes, sixty) books, including Not So Normal Norbert with James Patterson, Last-Minute Travel Secrets, Last-Minute Survival Secrets, Contrary to Popular Belief, Clean It! Fix It! Eat It!, the best-selling Joey Green's Magic Brands series, The Mad Scientist Handbook series, The Zen of Oz, and You Know You've Reached Middle Age If...—to name just a few.
Joey has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, and The View. He has been profiled in the New York Times, People magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, and he has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows.
A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University—where he was the political cartoonist on the Cornell Daily Sun and founded the campus humor magazine, the Cornell Lunatic (still publishing to this very day)—Joey lives in Los Angeles.
Joey has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, and The View. He has been profiled in the New York Times, People magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, and he has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows.
A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University—where he was the political cartoonist on the Cornell Daily Sun and founded the campus humor magazine, the Cornell Lunatic (still publishing to this very day)—Joey lives in Los Angeles.
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July 14, 2015
I love this little book!
it uplifted me in so many ways. Every failure leads us to the right path and makes our lives that much more richer. From Marlon Brando, Greto Garbo to Elvis Presley are featured here.
Did you know Dustin hoffman woreked as a janitor cos he could get acting jobs ? Did you know Elvis Presley's teachers told him he couldnt sing? Did you knw 20th Century Fox dropped Marilyn Monroe because they thought she was unattractive ? Did you know everyone around Marlon brando thought he would never amount to anything?
Well the people above and more went on to being successful on their own terms!
it uplifted me in so many ways. Every failure leads us to the right path and makes our lives that much more richer. From Marlon Brando, Greto Garbo to Elvis Presley are featured here.
Did you know Dustin hoffman woreked as a janitor cos he could get acting jobs ? Did you know Elvis Presley's teachers told him he couldnt sing? Did you knw 20th Century Fox dropped Marilyn Monroe because they thought she was unattractive ? Did you know everyone around Marlon brando thought he would never amount to anything?
Well the people above and more went on to being successful on their own terms!
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