Inspirational Lives: Stories of Determination and Success

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• Officials rejected a candidate for news
broadcasters post 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.
Then he decided to become….
AMITABH
BACHAN http://msadique.tripod.com
• In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the
Blue Book Modeling Agency told modeling
hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better
learn secretarial work or else get married".
• But she was not ready to quit. She went on

and became….
Marilyn
Monroe http://msadique.tripod.com
• In 1962, four nervous young musicians played
their first record audition for the executives of
the Decca Recording Company.
• The executives were not 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”.
• Then the group decided to be their own….

And they were called later
The
• In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand
Ole Opera, fired a singer after one
performance.
• He told him, “You ain't goin' nowhere son. You

ought to go back to drivin' a truck".
• So, he went out to become……
Elvis Presley
• 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. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• After making a demonstration of this man’s
creation, President Rutherford Hayes said:
"That's an amazing invention, but who would ever
going to use one of them?“
• When this man invented the telephone in 1876, it

even did not ring off the hook with calls from
potential backers.
• Still we remember him as….
Alexander Graham
Bell
• 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. I also
learned that 1999 material cannot be used as filament!"
Thomas Alva
Only
Edison can say thus.
• In the 1940s, an young inventor, 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 , he finally

got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloed
Company, to purchase the rights to his invention.
• His invention was nothing but an electrostatic Paper-

copying process. This Haloed company later became ….
• This boy’s education was limited to what is rumored to be about
three years. But he made his own steam engine at the age of
15.
• After two UNSUCCESSFUL attempts to establish a company to
manufacture automobiles, the Ford Motor Company was
incorporated in 1903 with him as vice-president and chief
engineer.
• In 1909, Ford made the decision to manufacture only one type of
car, the Model T, which changed automotive history
FOREVER.
As you know, he is Henry Ford
• A little girl , 20th of 22 children (?) was born prematurely and her
survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted
double pneumonia 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
and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic
walk which doctors said was a MIRACLE. The 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 went on to win three
Olympic gold medals.
Not a single picture of a child Wilma Rudolph
available because nobody notice her when she was a child!
is not
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• He was also told that with his obnoxiously long

Then he decided to become….

• But she was not ready to quit. She went on

• The executives were not impressed. While

• Then the group decided to be their own….

• He told him, “You ain't goin' nowhere son. You

• So, he went out to become……

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• When this man invented the telephone in 1876, it

• Still we remember him as….

• A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many

• He said, "I never FAILED once. I invented the Light

Edison can say thus.

• They all turned him down.

• In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections , he finally

• His invention was nothing but an electrostatic Paper-

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