10 Inspirational Hustle Stories

Most successful artists, buiness people or atheletes have a backstory of working extremely hard for a decade or more before they found financial success

1. LeBron James

Practices up to 6 hours a day.

2. Colonel Sanders

Colonel Harland Sanders was rejected over 1,000 times when he tried to sell his fried chicken recipe to restaurants. At the age of 65, after numerous rejections and failures, he finally found success by starting KFC, which grew into a global franchise.

Here he is hanging out with Alice Cooper:

3. Steven Spielberg

Spielberg was rejected three times from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.

They let him hang out there nowadays:

4. James Dyson

Dyson developed over 5,000 prototypes of his revolutionary vacuum cleaner over the span of 5 years before successfully launching it.

5. Richard Branson

Started what became Virgin Air by chartering a plane when his plane was canceled.

6. Sylvester Stallone

Stallone was rejected over 1,500 times by agents when he was trying to sell the script for Rocky and get himself cast as the lead.

he also hit the gym and maybe a pharmacy:

7. Vincent van Gogh

I'm not sure if this is inspirational or tragic:

Van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime, yet he continued to create over 2,000 artworks, driven by his passion for art despite the lack of recognition. Today, his work is regarded as some of the most important in the history of art.

8. Bethany Hamilton

After losing her arm in a shark attack at age 13, Bethany Hamilton not only returned to surfing, but within two years, she placed 5th in the NSSA National Championships and continued competing professionally.

9. Hedy Lamarr

A famous actress, Hedy Lamarr also co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology during World War II to help the Allies evade torpedo signal jamming. Despite being ignored by military officials and the scientific community at the time, her technology later became the basis for modern wireless communication, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

10. Ada Lovelace

Considered the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace faced immense societal barriers as a woman in 19th-century England. Her visionary work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine, laid the foundation for modern computing, long before it was recognized.

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