Most Inspiring Success Stories
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"If u have never Failed, You've never tried anything new".
Most of the Success stories start from a failure. Here are few most inspirational stories of people who became successful after number of failures.
1. Ratan Tata:
When Ratan Tata became the chairman in 1991, At the very
start of his career as chairman, two companies under him faced bankruptcy and
his employees faith in him dwindled as he brought down the retirement age from
70 to 65, leading to an ouster of some of the oldest employees of the
organisation. Despite the many failures he has seen, Tata Nano being the
latest, Ratan Tata did not give up and continues to be a global figure even
today.
2. Henry Ford:
While Ford is today known
for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn’t an instant
success. In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five time
before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company.
3. Soichiro Honda:
The billion-dollar business
that is Honda began with a series of failures and fortunate turns of luck.
Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation for a job after interviewing
for a job as an engineer, leaving him jobless for quite some time. He started
making scooters of his own at home, and spurred on by his neighbors, finally
started his own business.
4. Akio Morita :
Sony’s first product was a rice
cooker that unfortunately didn’t cook rice so much as burn it, selling less
than 100 units. This first setback didn’t stop Morita and his partners as they
pushed forward to create a multi - billion dollar company.
5. Bill Gates :
Gates didn’t seem like a
shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first
business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. While this
early idea didn’t work, Gates’ later work did, creating the global empire that
is Microsoft.
6. Steve Jobs:
At the age of 30, he was totally devastated and depressed after he being unceremoniously removed from the company he started.
7. Harland David Sanders :
Perhaps better known as Colonel Sanders of Kentucky
Fried Chicken fame, Sanders had a hard time selling his chicken at first. In
fact, his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a
restaurant accepted it.
8. Walt Disney :
Today Disney rakes in billions
from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world. Initially, He was
fired by a newspaper editor because, “he lacked imagination and had no good
ideas.” After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn’t last too
long and ended with bankruptcy and failure. He kept plugging along, however,
and eventually found a recipe for success that worked.
9. Albert Einstein :
Most of us take Einstein’s name as genius. But, Einstein did not speak until he was four
and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think
he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled
from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It
might have taken him a bit longer, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the
face of modern physics.
10. Charlie Chaplin :
It’s hard to imagine film
without the iconic Charlie Chaplin, but his act was initially rejected by
Hollywood studio chiefs because they felt it was a little too nonsensical to
ever sell.
11. J K Rowling :
Rowling may be rolling in a lot of Harry Potter
dough today, but before she published the series of novels she was nearly
penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own
while attending school and writing a novel.
12. The Beatles :
Few people can deny the lasting power of this
super group, still popular with listeners around the world today. Yet when they
were just starting out, a recording company told them “we don’t like their
sound, and guitar music is on the way out,”
13. Thomas Edison :
In his early years,
teachers told Edison he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Work was no better,
as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Even as
an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light
bulb. Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design
that worked.
14. Michael Jordan:
The best basketball player of
all time was actually cut from his high school basketball team and he has
stated, “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career”. I have lost almost
300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot,
and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that
is why I succeed.”
15. Messi :
Recognizably
smaller than most of the kids in his age group, Messi was eventually
diagnosed by doctors as suffering from a hormone deficiency that
restricted his growth. And now, he is a star football player for Argentina.
There
are lot more Success stories started from Failure. But, I hope these
stories would have been a motivation for taking you towards success.
