A candidate for a news broadcasters post was rejected by officialssince his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also toldthat with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous.
He is Amitabh Bacchan, the famous Indian actor.
A small boy the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, wasselling newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was notexceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion androckets. The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he builtcrashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule. He is theperson to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India single handedly.
He is Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, President of India.
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first recordaudition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. Theexecutives were not impressed. While turning down this group ofmusicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
The group was called The Beatles.
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agencytold modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learnsecretarial work or else get married."
She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.
In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singerafter one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere....son.You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."
He went on to become Elvis Presley.
When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how itfelt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I inventedthe light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000 step process."
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did notring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making ademonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazinginvention, but who would ever want to see one of them?"
In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country.They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, hefinally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention an electrostatic paper copying process.
Haloid became Xerox Corporation.
A little girl the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted doublepneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg.At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on andbegan to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, whichdoctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become arunner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few yearsevery race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit,but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And thenanother. From then on she won every race she entered.
Eventually this little girl Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.
A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to hismathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She toldhim that you would not become anybody in life.
The boy was Albert Einstein.
The Moral of the above: Character cannot be developed in ease andquiet Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul bestrengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience whereyou really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing youcannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace. In LIFE, remember that you pass this way only once! let's live life to the fullest and give it our extreme best.
"Failure is the pillar of success!" And if you know me well - you will vouch for it - every word.
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