People who inspire
People who inspire
While we have a specific blog section talking about how our great people became great irrespective of what they had to go through, here below is a compilation summary of several people who stand out as great inspiration for this generation, as their success has made others’ lives better, and of course they have shown us that consistent commitment in our goals will bring great dividends.
As we promised, the other articles are talking about one person in each post, to be able to learn more how they became great; here will be a list together with a description of what they overcome as a big test that built them to be really successful people we see now below.
Soichiro Honda: Honda
The billion-dollar business that is Honda, began with a series of failures and fortunate turns to luck. Soichiro Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation for a job after interviewing for a job as an engineer, leaving him jobless for quite some time.
The man didn’t give up and decided to create a company that competes with Toyota and so Honda was born!! If there is anything we can learn from this inspiring success story is we should never give up.
Akio Morita: Sony
Sony’s first product was a rice cooker that unfortunately didn’t cook rice so perfectly, ended up burning it, selling less than 100 units. This first setback didn’t stop Morita and his partners as they pushed forward to create a multi-billion dollar company.
Bill Gates: Microsoft
While most of people knows only that he dropped from Harvard University to start his Microsoft, do you know that his idea of creating a computer that has a graphical interface and a mouse was rejected when he first submitted it to another company?
Thomas Edison-Lamp Inventor
Thomas’ success story is one of the stories that can motivate anyone after experiencing failure. From some of his teachers saying “too stupid to learn anything” he never gave up. He failed about 999 times to invent the lamp before he succeeded in doing it on the 1000th attempt. He is one of the biggest inspirational people you can ever know, as it takes more than commitment to try 1000 times doing the same thing.
Stephen King- Writer
Most people know Stephen king the famous writer but few know about his life story. Stephen’s first novel was rejected almost everywhere it was submitted to the extent that he threw it in the garbage, only his wife got the story out of the garbage and insisted that he submits it again and in the end he became the Stephen king we know now!!
Walt Disney: Disney World
Only few people know this, He was fired by a newspaper editor because, “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney himself had a bit of a rough start. He kept pushing along, however, and eventually found a recipe for success that worked.
Albert Einstein: Physics Master
Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. Irrespective of what happened, he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics.
Orville and Wilbur Wright: Plane Inventors
These brothers’ battled depression and family illness; before starting the bicycle shop that would lead them to experimenting with flight. After numerous attempts at creating flying machines, several years of hard work, and tons of failed experiments, the brothers finally created a plane that could get airborne and stay there. Are you tired of several knocks you got in life and you are considering quitting?
Winston Churchill: UK Leader
The young boy Churchill struggled in school and failed the sixth grade. After school he faced many years of political failures, as he was defeated in every election for public office until he finally became the Prime Minister at the ripe old age of 62. He went on to be a Nobel Prize-winning, twice-elected Prime Minster of the United Kingdom, let’s remember that he wasn’t always as well regarded as he is today.
Abraham Lincoln: USA President
He is a good example for the people who think they will never fail as long as they live. He got loads of setbacks but never quitted, in his youth he went to war a captain and returned a private. Lincoln didn’t stop failing there, however. He started numerous failed businesses and was defeated in numerous runs he made for public office, until he won. That’s all he wanted.
Michael Jordan: NBA
Most people wouldn’t believe that a man often lauded as the best basketball player of all time was actually cut from his high school basketball team. Luckily, Jordan didn’t let this setback stop him from playing the game and he has stated, “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Chris Gardner: His movie “The Pursuit of Happiness”
Chris was troubled from childhood, as his parents, he did not end up there, he did fail miserably at his job as a medical equipment salesman, but his girlfriend also deserted him due to his deteriorating financial conditions. Homeless, he stayed with his son at motels, parks, airports and once even in a public toilet. He toiled incessantly at a brokerage firm during the daytime, stood in long queues so as to sleep under a roof at night.
Glenn Cunningham: Athlete
In February 1934, in New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden, this young man who was not expected to survive, who would surely never walk, who could never hope to run – this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world’s fastest mile.
Brian Acton: Whatsapp
Despite a dozen years of experience at Yahoo and Apple Computer, he got turned down by two of the internet’s most upcoming companies at the time. First Twitter, and then Facebook, no one knew he would build the application that has not only dominated cloud-based messaging, but is also used all over the world. Yes, this person is none other than Brian Acton, who developed Whatsapp. Whatsapp was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for about $19 billion USD in cash and stock, making Acton’s net worth around $3.8 billion.
So you inspired ? I know I am