Congrats to those who qualified Second Year Exams.. And to those who didnt. ...................................... Remember 1. Henry Ford: While Ford is today known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasnt an instant success. In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five times before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company. 2. R. H. Macy: Most people are familiar with this large department store chain, but Macy didnt always have it easy. Macy started seven failed business before finally hitting big with his store in New York City. 3. F. W. Woolworth: Some may not know this name today, but Woolworth was once one of the biggest names in department stores in the U.S. Before starting his own business, young Woolworth worked at a dry goods store and was not allowed to wait on customers because his boss said he lacked the sense needed to do so. 4. Soichiro Honda: The billion-dollar business that is Honda began with a series of failures and fortunate turns of luck. Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation for a job after interviewing for a job as an engineer, leaving him jobless for quite some time. He started making scooters of his own at home, and spurred on by his neighbors, finally started his own business. 5. Akio Morita: You may not have heard of Morita but youve undoubtedly heard of his company, Sony. Sonys first product was a rice cooker that unfortunately didnt cook rice so much as burn it, selling less than 100 units. This first setback didnt stop Morita and his partners as they pushed forward to create a multi-billion dollar company. 6. Bill Gates: Gates didnt seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didnt work, Gates later work did, creating the global empire that is Microsoft. 7. Harland David Sanders: Perhaps better known as Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, Sanders had a hard time selling his chicken at first. In fact, his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it. 8. Walt Disney: Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney himself had a bit of a rough start. He was fired by a newspaper editor because, he lacked imagination and had no good ideas. After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didnt last too long and ended with bankruptcy and failure. He kept plugging along, however, and eventually found a recipe for success that worked. And lets not forget Scientists and Thinkers. 1. Albert Einstein: Most of us take Einsteins name as synonymous with genius, but he didnt always show such promise. Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer, but most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics. 2. Charles Darwin: In his early years, Darwin gave up on having a medical career and was often chastised by his father for being lazy and too dreamy. Darwin himself wrote, I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect. Perhaps they judged too soon, as Darwin today is well-known for his scientific studies. 3. Robert Goddard: Goddard today is hailed for his research and experimentation with liquid-fueled rockets, but during his lifetime his ideas were often rejected and mocked by his scientific peers who thought they were outrageous and impossible. Today rockets and space travel dont seem far-fetched at all, due largely in part to the work of this scientist who worked against the feelings of the time. 4. Isaac Newton: Newton was undoubtedly a genius when it came to math, but he had some failings early on. He never did particularly well in school and when put in charge of running the family farm, he failed miserably, so poorly in fact that an uncle took charge and sent him off to Cambridge where he finally blossomed into the scholar we know today. 5. Socrates: Despite leaving no written records behind, Socrates is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the Classical era. Because of his new ideas, in his own time he was called an immoral corrupter of youth and was sentenced to death. Socrates didnt let this stop him and kept right on, teaching up until he was forced to poison himself. 6. Robert Sternberg: This big name in psychology received a “C” in his first college introductory psychology class with his teacher telling him that, there was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another. Ouch! Sternberg showed him, however, graduating from Stanford with exceptional distinction in psychology, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa and eventually becoming the President of the American Psychological Association. This should inspire students at traditional and accredited online colleges to always strive to succeed, no matter what anyone says along the way. Rest you can also add...
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 10:26:39 +0000
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