Losers who finally became winners...

A candidate for a news broadcaster's post was rejected because of his voice.  He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous.

 

Do you know who he was?

 

A small boy, 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 several times and he was made the object of ridicule.  He is the person to have scripted the space Odyssey of India almost single-handedly.

 

Do you know who he was?

 

A 4-year old girl, the 20th of 22 children, contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever at a very early age, which paralysed her left leg.  Thereafter at 9 years of age, she removed her leg braces and started walking without them.  At the age of 13, she decided to become a runner but kept failing miserably in all the races that she entered in.  She kept trying in spite of several detractors and finally won every race race that she participated in.

 

Do you know who she was?

 

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, one of the executives said, "we don't like their sound.  Groups of guitars are on their way out.

 

Do you know who they were?

 

IN 1944, Emmeline Snively, Director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency, told modeling hopeful, Norman Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married".

 

Did she listen to them?

 

In 1954, Jimmy Benny, Manager of the Grand Old Opry, fired a singer after one performance.  He told him, "You a'int goin' anywhere son, you ought to go back to drivin' a truck".

 

Did he then drive a truck?

 

When a gentleman invented a communications machine in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers.  After making a demonstration, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them?"

 

Do you know who he said this to?

 

In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 Corporations, including some of the biggest in the country.  They all turned him down.  After 7 years of rejections, in 1947,  he finally got a tiny company in New York called Haloid to purchase the rights to his invention

 

Do you know what it was?

 

A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying enough attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems.  She told him he would never be anybody in life; his mother however believed in him and coached him in maths.

 

No prizes for guessing who this boy was?

 

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