Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the city of Anaheim on the grounds that it would only attract riffraff. It seems that Walt Disney wasn’t disheartened by the naysayers of his generation, he was simply fueled by them. What will your naysayers bring out in you today?
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