Inspirational Lives

• 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

• 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

• 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 Beatles

• 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!"

Only Thomas Alva 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 is not

available because nobody notice her when she was a child!

It is not who you areOr what you are andWhat you have that matters.What really matters is whatYou do with what you have