Here's the video where Jack Ma opens up about rejection (at the World Economic Forum a few days ago): http://www.cityam.com/207831/watch-live-alibaba-founder-jack-ma-davos tl;dw - He applied to 30 jobs and got rejected from all of them. He was one of 24 people who applied to KFC back when it just expanded to China: 23 were accepted, he was the only who was rejected.