Leadership – People

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

-        Amitabh Bachchan.

A small boy – the fifth amongst several 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 build crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the space odyssey of India single-handedly.

-        Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

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 of musicians, one executive said, “We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”

                                                                                                     -  The group was called The Beatles

In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency told modelling hopeful Normal Jean Baker, “You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.”

-        Marilyn Monroe

In 1954m Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry fired a singer after one performance. He told him, “You aren’t going’ nowhere…son. You ought to go back to driving’ a truck.”

-        Elvis Presley

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 call, President Rutherford Hayes said, “That’s an amazing invention, but who would over want to see one of them?”

-        Alexander Graham Bell

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. In 1947, after seven years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company in New York, the Halod Company, to purchase the rights to his invention an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation.

-        Chester Carlson

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

-        Wilma Rudolph, winner of 3 Olympic gold medals

A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that he would not become anybody in life. His mother, however believed in him and coached him in maths.

-        Albert Einstein.