This was a post on Linkedin by a contact - Hesham Elmahdy - which I love love loved:
At age 5 his Father died.
At age 16 he quit school.
At age 17 he had already lost 4 jobs.
Between ages 18 & 22, he was a railroad conductor & failed.
He joined the army & washed out there.
He applied for law school was rejected.
He became an insurance salesman & failed.
At age 20 his wife left him.
He became a cook & dishwasher in a small cafe.
At age 65 he retired and decided to commit suicide because he had failed so much.
Then he realized there was one thing he could do better than anyone — he could cook.
He borrowed $87, bought & fried up chicken using his own recipe, and went door to door to sell them in Kentucky.
At age 88 Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC was a billionaire.