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“No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.”

-Baudjuin

  • 27 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss‘s first book, To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
  • 21 publishers rejected Richard Hooker‘s humorous war novel, M*A*S*H. He had worked on it for seven years.
  • 18 publishers turned down Richard Bach’s story about a “soaring eagle.” Macmillan finally published Jonathan Livingston Seagull in 1970. By 1975 it had sold more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone.
  • Emily Dickinson had only seven poems published in her lifetime.
  • Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college. He was described as both “unable and unwilling to learn.” No doubt a slow developer.
  • Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, was encouraged to find work as a servant by her family.
  • William Saroyan accumulated more than a thousand rejections before he had his first literary piece published. Way to not take a hint, Bill!
  • English crime novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.
  • Jack London received six hundred rejection slips before he sold his first story.
  • Charlie Chaplin was initially rejected by Hollywood studio chiefs because his pantomime was considered “nonsense.”