And if you think that’s impressive… Ford also failed with the Quadricycle and astronomical problems with the Model A’s reliability. Even his refusal to modernize the Model T resulted in a massive drop in sales. Yet nothing seemed to ever stop him from moving forward. In fact, when pressed with manufacturing delay, the easiest route to failure would have been accepting it was not possible to change. Instead, he miraculously turned a 14-hour process into a 90 minute one by attempting the impossible.

His other famous failures include: A city built in the rain forest called Fordlanida, which was closed almost as soon as it opened the doors. A $20 million dollar mistake, ($200 million today).

42. Bill Gates

“I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.”

The world’s youngest billionaire at the age of 31 with $72,700,000,000 in the bank by age 58. Bill Gates certainly made investors an astounding 30,207% return in Microsoft’s initial public offering, but it didn’t come without challenge. Gates was a Harvard University dropout and co-owner of the failed Traf-O-Data company first.

The idea behind Traf-O-Data was to read/process raw traffic data tapes and produce network reports. When accomplished, it could optimize traffic and eliminate congestion, or so he believed. After producing the Traf-O-Data 8008, the local county demo was tragic. The machine had failed to function.

Long after the success of Microsoft Gates would eventually face other failures along the way. While building a school lunch program in hopes the government would purchase it, the end result would be: no deal.

43. Walt Disney

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”