People Who Failed At First. Thomas Edison: Chances are you have heard of Edison in relation to overcoming failure before. He was a master of trail and error When asked about the many thousands of failures he had when trying to create the light-bulb he famously said,I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work. But there is even more to it than that. As a child he was thought to be dumb and told that he would never be a success by many of his teachers, because his mind would often wander in class. Good thing for us that the great inventor in history did not listen. Micheal Jordan: it is hard to imagine it, but the jordan, he is arguably the greatest basketball player ever,was once cut from his high school team. As jordan puts it, I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games on 26 occasions. I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Stephen King: King was working as a teacher in rural Maine when he wrote his first novel,Carrie. King had some small success selling short stories previously, but nothing that anyone could create a career on. King Submitted Carrie 30 times. King was rejected 30 times. Before his 31st attemp he threw the manuscript out. His wife rescued it from the round file and asked to try one more time. The rest .....Is history. Abraham Lincoln: If lincoln quit when the going got tough, the world might be a very different place. As a young man licoln entered military service in the Black Hawk war as a captain. Yet left as a private. With every little formal education, licoln taught himself and become a lawyer and congressman. His real rise to national prominence could also be viewed as a failure. In 1858 licoln tried for a seat in the Illinois Senate. This led to a series of hotly contested debates. (the lincoln-Douglas debates). Licoln lost the senate election, but really impressed a lot of the right people, even with his loss. Two years later he ran for president and won. Thankfully he did not let lack of formal education, initial failure or set backs rattle him. Albert Einstein: if asked to name a genius,most people would come up with the name Albert Einstein. Yet even for Einstein genius did not come easy. He had Speech difficulties as a child and was once even thought to be Mentally handicapped. As a teen he rebelled against his schools reliance on rote learning and failed. He tried to test into Zurich polytechnic, but failed again ( although he did very well in the math and physics section.....as you might expect) Einstein buckled down,received the requisite training and applied to zurich polythechnic again, and of course was accepted. A few years later he had a PHD and was recognized as a leading theorist. A few years after that he had a Nobel prize for physics and began to be recognized as the genius of our era. Oprah Winfrey: At age of 22, the now- TV mogul was fired from her job as a television reporter because she was unfit for tv. Winfrey was terminated from her post as co-anchor of the 6 oclock weekday news on Baltimores WJZ-TV after the show received low ratings Winfrey has called it the first and worst failure of her TV career Winfrey was then denoted to morning TV, Where she found her voice and met fellow newbie Gayle King, who would one day become her producer and editor of O, the oprah Magazine. Seven years later, winfrey moved to chicago, where her self titled talk show went on to dominate daytime TV for 25 years, and Ultimately head her own channel OWN. Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs was a college drop out, a fired tech executive and an unsuccessful businessman. At 30-years-old he was left devastated after being unceremoniously removed from the company he founded. In a 2005 Commencement speech and Stanford University, Jobs explained, I didnt see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successfull was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. After his return to Apple, Jobs created several iconic products, including the iPod , iPhone and iPad which have changed the face of consumer technology forever. And Jobs became one of the richest in the world. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Beloved, just like these great people; You CAN make it! Never give up or lose hope!
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:20:48 +0000
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