Never listen to negative people... never give up !

A candidate for a news broadcasters post was rejected by officials
since his Voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told
that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous.

He is Amitabh Bachchan.

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A small boy - the 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 .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 - President of India.

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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.

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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency
told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn
secretarial work or else get married. "She went on and became

Marilyn Monroe.

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In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry,Fired a singer
after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin'nowhere....son.
You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." He went on to become

The King of Rock n' Roll -> Elvis Presley.

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When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone 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 ever want to see one of
them?"

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When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000
experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how
it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I
invented the light bulb.

It just happened to be a 2000-step process."

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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 long years of
rejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the
Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention -- an
electrostatic paper-copying process.

Haloid became Xerox Corporation.

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A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her
survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double
pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg.
At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on
and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk,
which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become
a runner. She entered a race and came in last.

For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last.
Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she
actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every
race she entered. Eventually this little girl -

Wilma Rudolph, she went on to win three Olympic gold medals.

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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 you would not become anybody in life. The boy went on to
become

Albert Einstein.

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A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS!

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