Thursday, October 21, 2004

How winners behave!!!

A winner is NOT one who NEVER FAILS......but one who NEVER QUITS!!!"

Need proof? Read on...

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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.

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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.
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