A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his
mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems.
She told him that he would not become anybody in life. The boy went on to become --Albert Einstein.
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record
audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The
executives were impressed. While turning down this group of
musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound.
Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group was called ---The
Beatles.
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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling
Agency, told modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better
learn secretarial work or else get married." She went on and
became --Marilyn Monroe.
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In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a
singer after 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 the most popular singer in America named --Elvis
Presley
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When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it
did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After
making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said,
"That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use
one of them?"
The most successful men in the end are those
whose success is the result of steady accretion.
—
Alexander Graham Bell
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When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I
invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step
process."
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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 seven long
years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company inRochester,
New York, the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his
invention an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid
became Xerox Corporation we know today.
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Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born
prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4
years old, she contacted double pneumonia and scarlet fever,
which left her with a paralysed left leg. At age 9, she removed the
metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk
without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which
doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to
become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the
next few years every 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 then another. From then on she won
every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told
she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold
medals.
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A candidate for a news broadcasters post was rejected by officials
since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous.
He is --Amitabh Bachchan.
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A small boy - the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets. The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India single-handedly --Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
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Lakshmi Mittal has become something of a cult figure in the global steel industry. His company Mittal Steel is the largest steel maker in the world. After the recent merger between Mittal Steel and Arcelor which raged a big debate throughout the Europe, Laxmi Mittal current controls 10% of the total steel production and the combined entity that has come into force post-merger is three times the size of its nearest competitors.
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal was born on June 15, 1950 at Sadulpur, in Churu district of Rajasthan, in a poor family. The extended family of 20 lived on bare concrete floors, slept on rope beds and cooked on an open fire in the brickyard in a house built by his grandfather. Laxmi Mittal belongs to Marwari Aggarwal caste and his grandfather worked for the Tarachand Ghanshyam Das firm, one of the leading Marwari industrial firms of pre-independence India.
The family later on moved to Kolkata where his father Mohan Mittal became a partner in a steel company. Lakshmi Mittal graduated from St. Xaviers in Kolkata with a commerce degree in 1969. He began his career working in the family's steelmaking business in India and in 1976, Lakshmi Mittal founded Mittal Steel Company. He split from his father and two younger brothers in 1994 and took the international arm, with interests in Indonesia and Trinidad and Tobago, while the rest of the family kept the domestic Indian business. In the last few years Mittal Steel has made a number of acquisitions, buying up a network of steel producers in former communist countries including Kazakhstan, Romania and Ukraine, and pushing into the U.S. in 2004 with the $4.5 billion purchase of International Steel Group. Today, Mittal Steel is the only truly global steel producer in the world with operations on 14 countries, spanning 4 continents.
Lakshmi Mittal is also known for his opulence. In 2003, he acquired the Kensington mansion, said to be the world's most expensive home, from Formula One racing's Bernie Ecclestone for £70 million ($128 million). His daughter Vanisha's $50 million wedding bash is touted as the most expensive wedding of the 20th century.
In March 2006, Lakshmi Mittal was listed as the third wealthiest person in the world after Bill Gates and Warren Buffet by Forbes Magazine.
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The Moral of the above Stories: Character cannot be developed
in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired
and success achieved. You gain strength, experience and
confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear
in the face....
You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest
steel gets sent through the hottest furnace. A winner is not one
who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS! In LIFE, remember
that you pass this way only once! let's live life to the fullest and
give it our extreme best....
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