5 Famous People Who Failed First But Won Eventually

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4.Oprah Winfrey

“There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction,” she said during a Harvard commencement speech. She was fired from her first television job as an anchor in Baltimore. Today she is a billionaire with her own TV channels.

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