On the wall near my desk, I keep a list of the thirteen publishers who rejected Ayn Rand’s masterpiece The Fountainhead. They are:

Macmillan
Knopf
Doubleday
Simon & Schuster
Paramount
Little, Brown
Duell
Sloan & Pearce
Dutton
Dodd Mead
Lippincott
Reynal & Hitchcock
Random House

This is a great source of inspiration to me. Think about it: Ayn Rand escaped a totalitarian Russia (which eventually killed her parents) and [...]