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History is packed with many. Many individual success stories of people that believed in what they were trying to accomplish—despite those that rejected them for multiples of reasons. Here are a few great examples:
Walt Disney- He built the Magic Kingdom into the biggest family entertainment destination on the planet. Yet, he was fired from his job at a newspaper “for lacking imagination and having no good ideas.” It started with a mouse!
Michael Jordan- Can you believe he was cut from his high school basketball team for ‘being too short and not good enough’–yet he went on to being the greatest basketball player in history!
JK Rowling- She was a single mother on welfare living in her car. She wrote ‘Harry Potter’ on napkins and was rejected by 12 publishers before it became a billion-dollar franchise.
Oprah Winfrey- She was born into extreme poverty, suffered abuse, and got pregnant at the age of 14, but became the first black female billionaire and one of the most influential media moguls in American history!
Stephen King- His first novel “Carrie” was rejected 30 times by publishers, and he literally threw it in the trash. However, his wife rescued it, and the book became his first best seller. Today, he has written over 50 best-selling books!
Colonel Sanders- The infamous chicken mogul was 62 years old, broke and living on Social Security when he started KFC. His chicken recipe was rejected an incredible 1,009 times before someone said yes to his idea!
Albert Einstein- He didn’t speak until he was 4-years old and his teachers said, “he would never amount to anything.” Yet he went on to revolutionize physics and became history’s greatest genius!
The advertising industry is a lot like the success examples written above. The one thing that advertising has taught us here at The PM Group is this; failure is often the most common trail to success. If you treat failure as a learning lesson, you will eventually find the correct path. It is often the tortured path that you will journey along many times if you want to continue being successful.
About The PM Group: Since 1988, The PM Group has been one of top advertising agencies in Texas with annual revenues over $55,000,000. Founded by CEO | Media Director, Bob Wills, the San Antonio-based agency has represented clients across numerous verticals and industries including financial, casual dining and delivery, cultural institutions, home services, sports marketing, entertainment, automotive, legal services, nonprofit organizations, and more. Over the past five years, The PM Group has continued to grow organically through the addition of new clients and by expanding current clients’ marketing efforts. Additionally, the agency continues its renown legacy of charitable giving with each consecutive year outpacing the prior in terms of actual dollars raised and the number of charitable recipients. The PM Group now raises over $2M annually, with the agency’s 10-year total surpassing $17 million dollars. In addition to the primary San Antonio, Texas office, the agency has remote offices in Arizona, Oklahoma, Massachusetts and Virginia.
