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Never let your any ‘failure’ pull you down.

Life is the river, flows roughly sometime and get calm at some places, blended with successes and failures. Wise are those who do not let their failures pull them down. For your inspiration and motivation, I am giving a brief account of some of the famous people who didn’t let failure drag them down.

 1.   Henry Ford:

While Ford is today known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn’t an instant success.  In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five times before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company.

 2.   R.H. Macy:

Most people are familiar with this large department store chain, but Macy didn’t always have it easy.  Macy started seven failed business before finally hitting big with his store in New York City.

 3.   Soichiro Honda:

The billion-dollar business that is Honda began with a series of failures and fortunate turns of luck.  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.  He started making scooters of his own at home, and spurred on by his neighbors, finally started his own business.

 4. Bill Gates:

Gates didn’t seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data.  While this early idea didn’t work, Gates’ later work did, creating the global empire that is Microsoft.

 5.   Walt Disney:

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 was fired by a newspaper editor because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”  After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn’t last too long and ended with bankruptcy and failure.  He kept plugging along, however, and eventually found a recipe for success that worked and what it is which we enjoy now even after he is no more with us, but we know him very well.

 6.   J.K. Rowling:

Rowling may be rolling in a lot of Harry Potter dough today, but before she published the series of novels she was nearly penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel.  Rowing went from depending on welfare to survive to being one of the richest women in the world in a span of only five years through her hard work and determination.

 7.   Elvis Presley:

As one of the best-selling artists of all time, Elvis has become a household name even years after his death.  But back in 1954, Elvis was still a nobody, and Jimmy Denny, Manager of the Grand Ole Optry, fired Elvis Presley after just one performance telling him, “You ain’t going nowhere, son.  You ought to go back to driving a truck.”

 8.   Michael Jordan:

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 s hot, and I missed.  I have failed over and over and over again in my life.  And that is why I succeed.”

Relevant information compiled from a magazine.