![]() ![]() _ _Īre you ready to succeed in whatever you have set out to do?Īre you ready to reach out to your dream with conviction and commitment so that you really achieve what you dream for? Three years later, in 1935 the game was marketed by Parker Brothers, and Darrow and his wife became millionaires because they allowed adversity to make them instead of break them. Darrow carved hotels and houses out of small pieces of wood, and they called the game Monopoly. They reconstructed the area adjoining the boardwalk. In the evenings, to take their minds off their troubles, they made a little game in which they could pretend they were millionaires, recalling pleasant vacations in nearby Atlantic City. Fate didn't reckon with the courage of this man and his wife, however.They laughed at it, literally. Although he was a heating engineer, there were no jobs available and Darrow and his wife were just barely subsisting on the few odd jobs he could get as a handyman. The boy was Albert Einstein.īack in 1932 was out of a job and broke, and his wife was expecting a baby. She told him that you would not become anybody in life. His mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. Eventually this little girl - Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.Ī school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to From then on she won every race she entered. One day she actually won a race and then another. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. That same year she decided to become a runner. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. ![]() At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed left leg. Haloid became Xerox Corporation.Ī little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention - an electrostatic paper-copying process. In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. It just happened to be a 2000-step process." A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of them?" When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. ![]() You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." He went on to become Elvis Presley. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere.son. In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer after one performance. In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency told modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe. Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group was called The Beatles. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. ![]()
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