Who Said You Couldn't Do It?

• When Thomas Edison was a boy his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything.

• F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21 but his employers would not let him wait on a customer because he, "didn't have enough sense."

• A newspaper editor fired Walt DIsney because he had, "no good ideas."

• Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.

• Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.

• Beethoven's music teacher once said of him, "As a composer, he is hopeless."

• Caruso's music teacher told him, "You can't sing, you have no voice at all."

• The director of the Imperial Opera in Vienna told Madame Schumann Heink that she would never be a singer and advised her to buy a sewing machine.

• Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college.

• Werner von Braun flunked 9th grade algebra.

• Admiral Richard E. Byrd had retired from the Navy, as "Unfit for service" until he flew over both poles.

• Louis Pasterur was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College.

• Abraham Lincoln entereds the Black Hawk War as a Captain and came out as a private.

• Louisa May Alcott was told by an editor that she could never write anything that had popular appeal.

• Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.