{"id":9472,"date":"2017-08-10T15:39:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=9472"},"modified":"2017-08-10T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:39:22","slug":"have-you-ever-been-rejected-30-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=9472","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever been rejected 30 times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine trying to get a job for a record of 30 times, and every single time you were turned down, what would you do?<\/p>\n<p>Will you give up or keep trying?<\/p>\n<p>A very successful entrepreneur, Jack Ma, founder of alibaba.com says you should NEVER give up.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s his story:<\/p>\n<p>He applied for college twice, and failed.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9474 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alibaba2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alibaba2-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alibaba2-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alibaba2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He applied for jobs up to 30 times, including KFC, and was turned down. Actually he was the only one who was rejected out of 24 people.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, you\u2019d think he was jinxed, right?<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t care. He finally got&nbsp; job as a teacher, earning peanuts. But he loved his job and didn\u2019t worry much about the meager pay.<\/p>\n<p>When he tried to get into Harvard, he was rejected 10 times. Whew!<\/p>\n<p>For many&nbsp;people, this would have been the end of the road. They would throw in the towel. But not Jack Ma!<\/p>\n<p>When the internet became a thing in China, he was fascinated by it.<\/p>\n<p>His first two ventures failed. Eventually he called 17 people and shared the idea of alibaba.com, where wholesalers can sell their products directly to retailers and customers. That idea became a huge success.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9475 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alibaba3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alibaba3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alibaba3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alibaba3.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jack Ma is presently worth over $29billion!<\/p>\n<p>If this doesn\u2019t motivate you to get up and make your dreams happen no matter what, then I don\u2019t know what else will.<\/p>\n<p>xoxo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine trying to get a job for a record of 30 times, and every single time you were turned down, what would you do? Will you give up or keep trying? A very successful entrepreneur, Jack Ma, founder of alibaba.com says you should NEVER give up. Here\u2019s his story: He applied for college twice, and failed. He applied for jobs up to 30 times, including KFC, and was turned down. Actually he was the only one who was rejected out of 24 people. At this point, you\u2019d think he was jinxed, right? He didn\u2019t care. He finally got&nbsp; job as a teacher, earning peanuts. But he loved his job and didn\u2019t worry much about the meager pay. When he tried to get into Harvard, he was rejected 10 times. Whew! For many&nbsp;people, this would have been the end of the road. They would throw in the towel. But not Jack Ma! When the internet became a thing in China, he was fascinated by it. His first two ventures failed. Eventually he called 17 people and shared the idea of alibaba.com, where wholesalers can sell their products directly to retailers and customers. That idea became a huge success. Jack Ma is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9476,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions\/9476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}