Winner Never Quits

Officials rejected a candidate for a news broadcasters post 
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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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. 
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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 
Elvis Presley. 
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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. He is 
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. President of India. 
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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 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. 
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 aparalyzed 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,  went on to win three Olympic gold medals. 
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A schoolteacher 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 was 
Albert Einstein