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Walt Disney's newspaper editor told the aspiring cartoonist he wasn't creative enough. In 1919, Disney was fired from one of his first animation jobs at the Kansas City Star newspaper because his editor felt he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas," according to The Wisdom of Oz . That wasn't the last of his failures. Disney then acquired Laugh-O-Gram, an animation studio he later drove into bankruptcy. Finally, he decided to set his sights on a more profitable area: Hollywood. He and his brother moved to California and began the Disney Brothers' Studio, eventually creating Mickey Mouse and Disneyland and winning 22 Academy Awards Thomas Smale • Contributor Founder of FE International Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Is formal education a necessity? Do you need to go to school if you want to build a successful business? Most people are brought up to believe that going to school, getting good