Ogbe Prince Mathew > FLIGHT TO GREATNESS - MOTIVATION PITCH Motivation Pitch 05 - Success Story 2 Good morning friends, I hope you had a restful night? Continuing our series on motivation pitches to help us effectively work towards our goals, please find the story of 30 people like me and you, with just one head like you and me who failed for various reasons and the succeeded because they refused to give up, let down until they reached the peak of their careers or goals. If they succeeded in their goals, so can we. Read and get inspired to fly like the Eagle beginning today. 1)Soichiro Honda was turned down by Toyota during a job interview for an engineering position. Yes, THAT Honda. 2) Stephen King‘s first book, Carrie, was rejected 30 times before he threw it in the trash. His wife saved it and urged him to follow through. 3) Babe Ruth is famous for his home run records but also holds the world’s record for the largest number of strikeouts. 3)Thomas Edison, who has 1,093 U.S patents to his name, was told by a teacher that he was too stupid to learn anything. He also did more than 9,000 experiments before creating the first successful light bulb. 4)Harland David (Colonel) Sanders started his KFC dream at 65 years old. His fried chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times. 5) Oprah Winfrey had a rough and abusive childhood and was fired from her job as a reporter because she was “unfit for TV.” 6)Former United States Vice President Dick Cheney flunked out of Yale University. Twice. 7) Albert Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine years old and his parents concluded he was mentally retarded. 8)Theodor Seuss Giesel (Dr. Seuss) was rejected by 27 different publishers for his first book, To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. 9) Isaac Newton performed so poorly in grade school that his teachers lost hope for improving his grades. 10)Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, had every cartoon he submitted rejected by his high school yearbook staff and was later rejected for a position with Disney. 11) Elvis Presley was told by the Grand Ole Opry manager, Jimmy Denny, “You ain’t goin’ nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin’ a truck.” 12) When just starting out, The Beatles were told, “we don’t like your sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” 13) Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade. He eventually became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during WWII. 14) Steven Spielberg dropped out of junior high school, went back to be in a learning-disabled class, stayed a month, and then dropped out of school forever. 15) R. H. Macy started seven failed business before finally succeeding with his store in New York City. 16) During Fred Astaire‘s first screen test with MGM, he was told he, “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.”The casting director for Sidney Poitier‘s first audition asked him, “why don’t you stop wasting people’s time and go out and become a dishwasher or something?” 17) Charlie Chaplin‘s act was initially rejected by Hollywood higher-ups because they felt it was a little too nonsensical to sell. 18) Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team for a “lack of skill.” He kept on and even after making it pro he says he missed more than 9,000 shots, lost almost 300 games, and missed the game-winning shots 26 times. 19) Walt Disney went bankrupt four times before finally succeeding. Along the way, he was told he lacked imagination and had no good ideas. 20) Harry Potter’s J. K. Rowling was a penniless, depressed, divorced, single mother, attending school while writing her novels. Five years later, she’s doing quite well. 21) Marilyn Monroe was dropped by 20th Century-Fox after one year because her producer claimed she was unattractive and couldn’t act. 22) Milton Hershey’s chocolate enterprise was his third business after failing on the first two. 23) Ludwig van Beethoven‘s music teacher once said, “as a composer, he is hopeless.” Later, he lost his hearing but continued to make inspiring and well appreciated music. 24) Ray Kroc was s 57 year old struggling malted milk machine salesman before he borrowed all of the money needed to buy out the McDonald’s founders. 25) Akio Morita‘s first product, a rice-cooker that actually just burned rice, only sold 100 units. His company is now called Sony. 26) Abraham Lincoln failed in business three times and failed campaigning seven times prior to becoming President of the United States. 27) Microsoft’s Bill Gates was a Harvard University dropout and his first business, Traf-O-Data, was a failure. 28) Frank Winfield Woolworth, founder of one of the largest retail chains, was told by his dry-goods store manager he “didn’t have enough common sense to serve customers.” 29) Henry Ford was a failure at three businesses before finally succeeding with Ford Motor Company at age 53. 30) John Grisham started out as a lawyer who loved to write. His first book A Time to Kill took three years to write and was rejected 28 times. He’s now gone on to sell over 250 million copies of them. How about you and me? What is our problem? Are we suffering from the disease called excusilogies? Lets look though the 30 success stories of failures that will spore us for life to fulfil our goals
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 01:41:55 +0000
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