Winner is NOT one who NEVER FAILS......

......but one who NEVER QUITS!!!"

Need proof? Read on...

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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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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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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(most famous Bollywood actor ever and very famous for his voice).

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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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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. Lol
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once there was a famous musician working in the Power Station Studios, NY- he heard the recordings of a 20 year old gofer who worked there and said "boy- you'll never make it"- the famous musician was bruce springsteen and the gofer jon bon jovi

(not sure if this is 100% true- but i read it in a biography)

yeah that too

It works both ways though, although with any of the cases it depends on a point of view. My point of view I don't really like Elvis or The Beatles for a couple of examples. Not everyone can be liked by everybody all of the time.

All of them were great but I'm completely amazed by this one!!

Oh, and the 20th out of 22 siblings??!!

An inarticulate down-and-out reformed alcoholic, several times a failure in business, bankrupting several companies, finds God and through help of his family begins a career in politics. In the face of all adversity and even receiving less votes than his nearest rival, today the man stands tall, but confused as The President of the United States of America

How’s that for a lesson to us all?!!

SECONDED!

for all those who've succeeded how many have failed? a lot more i should think. most of these people just got lucky and got their break

So what are u implying?. Just lucky person succesed?.

How true is this one?!?!?!

I think being in the right place at the right time also has a lot to do with things as well...

Lot of time thats true but can't that be a reason, if that person doesn;t have talent or put hard work and keep on trying for his goal, he probably never sucessed too much really.