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Success is not build only on luck and hard work..., but also on the many situations when people tried and failed to be the best. They are great figures, but before that they failed big time. The shame is not when one has failed, but when they do nothing to overtake their decline.
Abraham Lincoln, had studied formally just 5 years. When he grew up, he joined politics and was rejected 12 times before he was elected the 16th President of the United States of America.
Harry S. Truman - former USA President was rejected by the US Military and Naval Academies due to his poor eyesight. He worked in the same time as a clerk in a newspaper mail-room, and also an usher in a movie theater.
John F. Kennedy, former USA President, failed his candidacy as a president of his class at Harvard. He didn’t win a post on the student council and dropped out of Stanford Business School.
Wiston Churchill the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, failed the 6th grade.
Thomas Edison failed hundreds of times as he was testing the filaments for his light bulb. While in school teachers considered him slow and unable to learn. And he got fired from a job because his experiment exploded.
“I have not failed seven hundred times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those seven hundred ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
Albert Einstein the theoretical physicist that was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics, when he was a child he was considered retarded by his parents and teachers. Teachers asked several time his parents to withdraw him from school.
Soichiro Honda was turned down at a job interview by Toyota Motor Corporation. He went jobless for some time until people started buying his homemade scooters.
Akio Morita, founder of giant electric products, Sony Corporation first products came out pretty bad and he had to recall them and felt into big debts.
Fred Smith received a bad grade on a project at Yale University for a business plan for reliable overnight delivery service. He later founded Federal Express based on the same idea.
Henry Ford before becoming famous with his automobile company had two big bankruptcies in the same industry.
Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft, dropout from Harvard University and started a small software company. Yes, the later Microsoft.
Leonardo da Vinci, who was a multi-talented personality expert in 36 professions, was an illegitimate son, pushed from a house to another and learned most of his skills later in life by himself.
Walt Disney started his business in his garage- and his first production was a big failure and he went bankrupt. He was also fired from a job because of his lack of imagination. A come back? His average revenue now is around $30 billion annually.
Steven Spielberg the famous producer, dropped from High school twice and because of that he could never be admitted to UCLA film faculty.
Woody Allen, academy Award-winning writer, producer and director failed motion picture production in University and was doing poorly in English.
Sylvester Stallone was thrown out of 14 schools in 11years. He was told he could never act and his screenplay for Rocky was rejected by numerous companies.
Jim Carrey before becoming the famous entertainer had a hard time also. He moved from a school to another spending 3 years in the same grade. He performed in Toronto in different locations for free, just to get people to know him. When he moved to Los Angeles he was rejected many times and performed in poorly rated films.
Michael Jordon, the NBA superstar. He was cut off from the high-school basketball team because of his lack of skills.
J. K. Rowling, the writer of Harry Potter lived on welfare in an unheated apartment infested with mice. She was also depressive. She got out of all that misery in 5 years by selling 400 million copies of her books (around $798 million).
Rudyard Kipling, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature was rejected by an editor because of his bad use of English language.
Jules Verne the famous fantastic visionary writer was discouraged by his family to write. He burned his first script.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child prodigy of classical music lived most of his life in poverty and just entertaining aristocracy.
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
Ludwig van Beethoven, the German composer of classical music, one of history’s greatest composers was considered by his music teacher hopeless. During his career, he lost his hearing. Ironically, he still composed music.
The Beatles were rejected in 1962 by the Decca, Pey, Philips, Columbia and HMV.
Elvis Presley the famous singer had poor grades in music during his schooling years.
Luciano Pavarotti, the famous tenor could not read music.
Examples may continue...
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
Success is not build only on luck and hard work..., but also on the many situations when people tried and failed to be the best. They are great figures, but before that they failed big time. The shame is not when one has failed, but when they do nothing to overtake their decline.
Abraham Lincoln, had studied formally just 5 years. When he grew up, he joined politics and was rejected 12 times before he was elected the 16th President of the United States of America.
Harry S. Truman - former USA President was rejected by the US Military and Naval Academies due to his poor eyesight. He worked in the same time as a clerk in a newspaper mail-room, and also an usher in a movie theater.
John F. Kennedy, former USA President, failed his candidacy as a president of his class at Harvard. He didn’t win a post on the student council and dropped out of Stanford Business School.
Wiston Churchill the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, failed the 6th grade.
Thomas Edison failed hundreds of times as he was testing the filaments for his light bulb. While in school teachers considered him slow and unable to learn. And he got fired from a job because his experiment exploded.
“I have not failed seven hundred times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those seven hundred ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
Albert Einstein the theoretical physicist that was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics, when he was a child he was considered retarded by his parents and teachers. Teachers asked several time his parents to withdraw him from school.
Soichiro Honda was turned down at a job interview by Toyota Motor Corporation. He went jobless for some time until people started buying his homemade scooters.
Akio Morita, founder of giant electric products, Sony Corporation first products came out pretty bad and he had to recall them and felt into big debts.
Fred Smith received a bad grade on a project at Yale University for a business plan for reliable overnight delivery service. He later founded Federal Express based on the same idea.
Henry Ford before becoming famous with his automobile company had two big bankruptcies in the same industry.
Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft, dropout from Harvard University and started a small software company. Yes, the later Microsoft.
Leonardo da Vinci, who was a multi-talented personality expert in 36 professions, was an illegitimate son, pushed from a house to another and learned most of his skills later in life by himself.
Walt Disney started his business in his garage- and his first production was a big failure and he went bankrupt. He was also fired from a job because of his lack of imagination. A come back? His average revenue now is around $30 billion annually.
Steven Spielberg the famous producer, dropped from High school twice and because of that he could never be admitted to UCLA film faculty.
Woody Allen, academy Award-winning writer, producer and director failed motion picture production in University and was doing poorly in English.
Sylvester Stallone was thrown out of 14 schools in 11years. He was told he could never act and his screenplay for Rocky was rejected by numerous companies.
Jim Carrey before becoming the famous entertainer had a hard time also. He moved from a school to another spending 3 years in the same grade. He performed in Toronto in different locations for free, just to get people to know him. When he moved to Los Angeles he was rejected many times and performed in poorly rated films.
Michael Jordon, the NBA superstar. He was cut off from the high-school basketball team because of his lack of skills.
J. K. Rowling, the writer of Harry Potter lived on welfare in an unheated apartment infested with mice. She was also depressive. She got out of all that misery in 5 years by selling 400 million copies of her books (around $798 million).
Rudyard Kipling, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature was rejected by an editor because of his bad use of English language.
Jules Verne the famous fantastic visionary writer was discouraged by his family to write. He burned his first script.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child prodigy of classical music lived most of his life in poverty and just entertaining aristocracy.
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
Ludwig van Beethoven, the German composer of classical music, one of history’s greatest composers was considered by his music teacher hopeless. During his career, he lost his hearing. Ironically, he still composed music.
The Beatles were rejected in 1962 by the Decca, Pey, Philips, Columbia and HMV.
Elvis Presley the famous singer had poor grades in music during his schooling years.
Luciano Pavarotti, the famous tenor could not read music.
Examples may continue...
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Pentru ca nu aia era vocatia lor. Find out who you are and live that truth=D
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