Matching Pairs Road to SuccessOnline version Match the Famous Person with the description of a failure. by Carly Berry 1 Thomas Edison - Inventor of Lightbulb 2 Elvis Presley - Famous Singer 3 Walt Disney - Creator of Mickey Mouse 4 Whoopi Goldberg - Famous Actress 5 Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United States 6 J.K. Rowling - Wrote the Harry Potter Series 7 Michael Jordan - Famous Athlete 8 Colonel Sanders - Founder of KFC Performed odd and un-glamourous jobs, such as fixing hair and makeup for corpses. Lost 8 Elections. Had A Nervous Breakdown. Was told he had no talent for drawing. Was kicked off of his varsity basketball team Lived on welfare and was rejected by 12 publishers Was told to go back to driving a truck and quit singing. Thrown out of school because his teachers said he couldn't learn Had a recipe that was rejected from more than 1,000 restaurants