Successful People who failed at

first

"If you live long enough, you will make mistakes.

But if you learn from them, you will get better

Person. It's how you deal with adversity, not how

The main thing is never to give up

Never stop, never stop. ""

(- a quote from Bill Clinton.)

Successful People who failed at
first

1.) Dr. Abdul Kalam

Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, an Indian scientist and the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007, has faced uncountable oddsin his path to become the leader of a Nation. Dr. Abdul

Kalam was born in a Tamil Muslim family; his father Jainulabdeen was a boat owner and his mother Ashiamma was a housewife. Dr. Abdul Kalam hails from a poor family and started working at an early age to supplement his family’sincome by distributing newspapers after school to financially contribute to his father’sincome. In his school years, he had average grades, but was a hardworking student with interest in mathematics. Even during his senior class project while in college, the Dean was dissatisfied with the lack of progress and threatened revoking his scholarship unlessthe project was finished within the next three days. He then worked tirelessly on his project and met the deadline, impressing the Dean. From there on, Dr. Kalam joined Aeronautical Development Establishment of Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) as a scientist and went on to head the organization.

2.) Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirubhai Ambani, the first Indian to

Entrepreneur to feature his Company on

the Forbes 500 list, was born Dhirajlal

Hirachand Ambani in a middle class

family. His father was a school teacher

and Ambani moved to Yemen at the age

of 16, and worked there as a gas-station

attendant and as a clerk in an oil

company. He returned to India in 1958

with Rs 50,000 and set up a textile

trading company, which is now one of

the largest business houses in India with

interest in many different sectors.

3.) Narayana Murthy

Narayana Murthy, who is described asthe father of the Indian IT Sector and listed by Fortune Magazine among the 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time, has not always been successful with his ventures. Narayana Murthy’s first venture, a company named Softronics, failed in about a year and a half after its start. After the failure of his first venture, Narayana Murthy joined Patni Computer Systems and worked there for about five years. He then founded Infosysin 1981 along with six software professionals and a meagre capital provided by his wife

Sudha Murthy. Infosys is today India’s fifth largest publicly traded company and the third largest Indian based IT Services company.

4.) Captain Gopinath

Captain Gopinath, the founder of Air Deccan, which revolutionized air travel in India hails from a simple family. Captain Gopinath’s father was a school teacher and he was the second of eight children. After finishing his schooling, Gopinath was commissioned with the Indian Army for a period of eight years. After retirement from the armed forces, he became a farmer – established a sustainable farm, opened an enfield dealership and ran a Udipi hotel. Only after many ventures, failures and adversities did Captain Gopinath finally start Deccan Aviation, a helicopter charter service – which later became the launch

pad for Air Deccan.

5.) Sushil Kumar

Sushil Kumar is an renowned Indian World Champion wrestler who won the gold medal in the FILA 2010 World Wrestling Championships, a silver medal in the 2012 London Olympics and a bronze medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The renowned Indian wrestler hails from a lower-middle class family and his father was a DTC bus driver and his mother is a housewife. Sushil Kumar was inspired to taken on wrestling by his cousin Sandeep, who eventually quit wrestling as their family could support only one wrestler. Despite the minimal funds available, poor training facilities and lack of dietary supplements, Sushil Kumar has become an world- renowned Wrestling Champion through hard work and determination. Sushil Kumar is presently employed with the Indian Railways as an Assistant Commercial Manager.

6.) Amitabh Bachchan

In 1999 Amitabh Bachchan’s Company “Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited” was declared as a ‘sick’ company. Amitabh’s friends and financial advisors advised him to close the sick company and move on; but, Amitabh didn’t quit and kept going.

He now recalls how he felt like there was a sword hanging on top of his head at all

the time and the number of nights spent sleepless. It was at this time that Amitabh

one morning got up early and went to Yash Chopra. He told him that he was

bankrupt, had no films and that his house was attached by creditors. Yash Chopra

then offered him a role in his film Mohabattein. Amitabh also started doing

commercials and television programs. It was at this time that he got a huge break

through Kaun Banega Crorepati; it propelled him into national stardom and helped in the reversal of his fortunes.

Amitabh Bachchan.

7.) Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, one of the greatest cricketersfrom India did not really have a huge interest in cricket from his childhood. Dhoni initially played badminton and football, at the district and club level. It was while he was playing football as a goal keeper, he was selected by his coach to play as a wicket-keeper in the local cricket club. As he started wicket-keeping regularly for the local club, he honed his cricketing skills and was regularly selected in club cricket. Dhoni hails from a lower- middle classfamily. Hence to support himself and his family, he took up the job of a train ticket examiner or TTE in the Indian Railways. Dhoni worked as TTE from 2000 to 2003 and was selected for the Indian Cricket Team in the year 2004. Today he is the captain of Indian Cricket Team and his records are the best among all Indian captains to date.

8.) JK ROWLING

The author of the hugely successful Harry Potter series has had anything but a

smooth ride. By the time she had finished the first of the Harry Potter books she was divorced, on welfare and with a child to support. Furthermore, all 12 major publishers rejected the Harry Potter manuscript.

Finally, a year later Bloomsbury accepted

it and extended a very small £1500

advance.

No doubt, it was one of the best decisions

the publishing house has ever made.

9.) Bill Gates

Bill Gates, one of the world’s wealthiest

men now, struggled to find his niche early

on. He started Traf-O-Data, a business that created reports for roadway engineers from raw traffic data, with two other businessmen.

The company did achieve a measure of

success by generating some income, but

llegedly the machine they had built to

process the data tanked when they tried to present it to a Seattle County traffic

employee. This didn’t stop, Bill, and the

lessons he learned from the traffic data

company helped him found one of the

world’s biggest companies.

10. Thomas Edison

Edison may just hold the record for most failed attempts before reaching success on a single project, having failed several thousand times before inventing a functional light bulb. His response has become famous to entrepreneurs: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

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