Success comes in different shapes and colors. Job, hobby, sports, marraige, etc... There is one thing successful people never do and thats quit! People that write about success try to paint a perfect picture and say its a piece of cake. They never write about all the times failed- before the big break. Well some of the most successful people in world failed over and over before capturing their dreams or success. Do some research on some of these people ---> Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, J.K. Rowling, Bill Gates. (Henry Ford - the pioneer of modern business entrepreneurs and the founder of the Ford Motor Company failed a number of times on his route to success. His first venture to build a motor car got dissolved a year and a half after it was started because the stockholders lost confidence in Henry Ford. Ford was able to gather enough capital to start again but a year later pressure from the financiers forced him out of the company again. Despite the fact that the entire motor industry had lost faith in him he managed to find another investor to start the Ford Motor Company - and the rest is history.) Walt Disney - one of the greatest business leaders who created the global Disney empire of film studios, theme parks and consumer products didnt start off successful. Before the great success came a number of failures. Believe it or not, Walt was fired from an early job at the Kansas City Star Newspaper because he was not creative enough! In 1922 he started his first company called Laugh-O-Gram. The Kansas based business would produce cartoons and short advertising films. In 1923, the business went bankrupt. Walt didnt give up, he packed up, went to Hollywood and started The Walt Disney Company. (Richard Branson - He is undoubtedly a successful entrepreneur with many successful ventures to his name including Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Music and Virgin Active. However, when he was 16 he dropped out of school to start a student magazine that didnt do as well as he hoped. He then set up a mail-order record business which did so well that he opened his own record shop called Virgin. Along the way to success came many other failed ventures including Virgin Cola, Virgin Vodka, Virgin Clothes, Virgin Vie, Virgin cards, etc.) Oprah Winfrey - who ranks No 1 in the Forbes celebrity list and is recognised as the queen of entertainment based on an amazing career as iconic talk show host, media proprietor, actress and producer. In her earlier career she had numerous set-backs, which included getting fired from her job as a reporter because she was unfit for television, getting fired as co-anchor for the 6 Oclock weekday news on WJZ-TV and being demoted to morning TV. (J.K. Rowling - who wrote the Harry Potter books selling over 400 million copies and making it one of the most successful and lucrative book and film series ever. However, like so many writers she received endless rejections from publishers. Many rejected her manuscript outright for reasons like it was far too long for a childrens book or because children books never make any money. J.K. Rowlings story is even more inspiring because when she started she was a divorced single mum on welfare.) Bill Gates -co-founder and chairman of Microsoft set up a business called Traf-O-Data. The partnership between him, Paul Allen and Paul Gilbert was based on a good idea (to read data from roadway traffic counters and create automated reports on traffic flows) but a flawed business model that left the company with few customers. The company ran up losses between 1974 and 1980 before it was closed. However, Bill Gates and Paul Allen took what they learned and avoided those mistakes when they created the Microsoft empire...... NEVER GIVE UP. ALWAYS PICK YOURSELF BACK UP WHEN YOU FALL. BE POSITIVE AND BE CONFIDENT. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE SUCCESSFUL. ITS UP TO YOU TO CHOOSE THE LIFE YOU LIVE. EXCUSES ARE FOR THOSE WHO WANT ORDINARY. HARD WORK, DEDICATION, SACRIFICE, AND A POSITIVE MINDSET IS FOR THOSE WHO EXTRAORDINARY!
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:58:37 +0000
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