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Here is wisdom.

  1. The Beatles
    The Beatles
    The Beatles

    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,
    group was called The Beatles.

  2. Marilyn Monroe
    Marilyn Monroe
    Marilyn Monroe

    In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency, told modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, “You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.” She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

  3. Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer after
    one performance. He told him, “You ain’t going’ nowhere….son. You ought to
    go back to drivin’ a truck.” He went onto become the most popular singer in
    America named Elvis Presley.

  4. Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell

    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

  5. Thomas Edison
    Thomas Edison
    Thomas Edison

    many times. He said, “I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It
    just happened to be a 2000-step process.”

  6. Chester Carlson
    Chester Carlson
    Chester Carlson

    turned him down. In 1947 – after seven long years of rejections! He finally
    got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase
    the rights to his invention – an electrostatic paper-copying process.
    Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.

  7. Wilma Rudolph
    Wilma Rudolph
    Wilma Rudolph

    Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed 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

ambition inspired and success achieved. You gain strength, experience and
face…. You must do the thing you cannot do. The finest steel gets sent
through the hottest furnace.


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