(excerpt from my upcoming book "Success Principles"
"The world is full of success stories from the beginning of time. But we admire the truly successful people who fight back from failure and become successful, setting positive examples tha...t inspire us to work through the many setbacks we all will surely face.
Here are some of the successful achievers who have persevered through it all:
R.K. Rowling: the Harry Potter author’s first book was originally turned down by 12 publishers, including major houses like Penguin and HarperCollins. Bloomsbury, a small publisher, accepted the novel after the CEO’s eight-year old daughter convinced him of its value.
John Grisham’s first novel, A Time to Kill, was rejected by a dozen publishers and 16 agents before being accepted by a publisher and thus starting his writing career.
Walt Disney’s first animation company went bankrupt, and he was fired by a news editor because he lacked imagination. It is also believed that Disney was turned down 302 times before he finally received financing for creating Disney World.
Colonel Harland David Sanders, the founder of KFC Chicken franchise, was barely getting by before taking his new idea for fried chicken to the public at age 65.
R. H. Macy had a history failing businesses, including the store Macy's in NYC, but he persevered and he soon had the biggest and most successful store in the world.
Fred Astaire: In his first screen test, the testing director of MGM noted that Astaire “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.” Astaire went on to become an incredibly successful actor, singer and dancer and kept that note in his Beverly Hills home to remind him of where he came from.
Henry Ford failed many times before perfecting his Model T car and turned them out on an assembly line. On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the 15 millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan.
Stephen King’s first novel, Carrie, was rejected dozens of times. It is said that he was so frustrated with his first novel, Carrie, that he threw it in the trash. King's wife found the manuscript in the trash and took it out, and convinced her husband to resubmit it. To date his more than 50 books have sold 350 million copies.
Mark Cuban, the billionaire and owner of the basketball team the Mavericks, admitted that he failed many times before succeeding and selling his computer company to Yahoo for 5.9 billion dollars in stock. He once said, “I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter how many times you failed,” Cuban says. “You only have to be right once. I tried to sell powdered milk. I was an idiot lots of times, and I learned from them all.”
Even Vincent Van Gogh, who couldn’t sell his paintings, forged on. He completed more than 800 pieces, and now his most expensive painting is valued at more than 140 million dollars.
The Beatles were originally rejected by many record labels, including Decca Records, who said: "Guitar groups are on the way out" and "The Beatles have no future in show business.” After that, the Beatles signed with EMI, brought Beatlemania to the United States, and became the greatest band in history.
The great Michael Jordan was a failure at basketball for years at the beginning of his career, but turned out to be the best in the game. He once said, “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.”
Charles Swindoll summarized a positive attitude the best:
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
It will make or break a company, a church, a home.”
--Charles Swindoll"
C-2014 John Paul Carinci http://www.amazon.com/Power-Being-Different-success-ebook/dp/B002C75GY4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297365248&sr=1-1See More
"The world is full of success stories from the beginning of time. But we admire the truly successful people who fight back from failure and become successful, setting positive examples tha...t inspire us to work through the many setbacks we all will surely face.
Here are some of the successful achievers who have persevered through it all:
R.K. Rowling: the Harry Potter author’s first book was originally turned down by 12 publishers, including major houses like Penguin and HarperCollins. Bloomsbury, a small publisher, accepted the novel after the CEO’s eight-year old daughter convinced him of its value.
John Grisham’s first novel, A Time to Kill, was rejected by a dozen publishers and 16 agents before being accepted by a publisher and thus starting his writing career.
Walt Disney’s first animation company went bankrupt, and he was fired by a news editor because he lacked imagination. It is also believed that Disney was turned down 302 times before he finally received financing for creating Disney World.
Colonel Harland David Sanders, the founder of KFC Chicken franchise, was barely getting by before taking his new idea for fried chicken to the public at age 65.
R. H. Macy had a history failing businesses, including the store Macy's in NYC, but he persevered and he soon had the biggest and most successful store in the world.
Fred Astaire: In his first screen test, the testing director of MGM noted that Astaire “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.” Astaire went on to become an incredibly successful actor, singer and dancer and kept that note in his Beverly Hills home to remind him of where he came from.
Henry Ford failed many times before perfecting his Model T car and turned them out on an assembly line. On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the 15 millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan.
Stephen King’s first novel, Carrie, was rejected dozens of times. It is said that he was so frustrated with his first novel, Carrie, that he threw it in the trash. King's wife found the manuscript in the trash and took it out, and convinced her husband to resubmit it. To date his more than 50 books have sold 350 million copies.
Mark Cuban, the billionaire and owner of the basketball team the Mavericks, admitted that he failed many times before succeeding and selling his computer company to Yahoo for 5.9 billion dollars in stock. He once said, “I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter how many times you failed,” Cuban says. “You only have to be right once. I tried to sell powdered milk. I was an idiot lots of times, and I learned from them all.”
Even Vincent Van Gogh, who couldn’t sell his paintings, forged on. He completed more than 800 pieces, and now his most expensive painting is valued at more than 140 million dollars.
The Beatles were originally rejected by many record labels, including Decca Records, who said: "Guitar groups are on the way out" and "The Beatles have no future in show business.” After that, the Beatles signed with EMI, brought Beatlemania to the United States, and became the greatest band in history.
The great Michael Jordan was a failure at basketball for years at the beginning of his career, but turned out to be the best in the game. He once said, “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.”
Charles Swindoll summarized a positive attitude the best:
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
It will make or break a company, a church, a home.”
--Charles Swindoll"
C-2014 John Paul Carinci http://www.amazon.com/Power-Being-Different-success-ebook/dp/B002C75GY4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297365248&sr=1-1See More
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