Success stories of great men and great women who started from failures
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Abraham Lincoln
1.SUCCESS STORY OF ABRAHAMLINCOLN
We all know who is Abraham Lincoln. He was the president of USA. There is a number of failures for him before getting the president ship.
At 21 years of age, he failed in thebusiness.
At 22 year of age, he was defeated in the election for assembly.
At 24 years of age, he again tasted failure in the business.
At 26 years of age , his lover passes away.
At 27 years of age, he was in deep mental agony.
At 34 years of age, he was defeated in the American congress election.
At 45 years of age, he was defeated in the senate election.
At 47 years of age, he was defeated in the election for vice-president.
At 49 years of age, he was again defeated in the senate election.
AT 52 YEARS OF AGE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WON THE ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT.
Normally one would have fed up with the defeat and live with what he has. But Lincoln have fought all the defeats and found the success in the end.
Thomas alva edison
2.SUCCESS STORY OF THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Once a student named Tomyreturned home from school crying loud. On seeing this his mother asked him what had happened. He show her a letter from his class teacher. His classteacher complained that Tomy is not clever, brilliant and smart enough to continue in the school. He is a laggard and the teacher wants the Tomy's mother to transfer Tomy from the school. This Tomy later become the great scientistTHOMA ALVA EDISON. Thomas Alva Edison had only 3 month education in the school. Thomas Elva Edison failed around 10000times in the discovery of Electric bulb.
3.SUCCESS STORY OF DHIRUBHAI AMBANI
Dhirubhai Ambani started his entrepreneurial career by selling "bhajias" to pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the weekends during his early days. After doing his matriculation at the age of 16, Dhirubhai moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked there as a gas-station attendant, and as a dispatch clerk with A.Besse & Co. After becoming the distributor for the Shell products,A.Besse & Co promoted Dhirubhai to manage the company`s oil filling station at the port of Aden. But he returned to India in 1958 with Rs 50,000 and started the Reliance Commercial Corporation with a capital of Rs 15,000. From modest Rs.50,000 his empire now worth around 10 lakhs crores. What more he does not attend the school. If one have the patience and self confidence and dedication for the aim in his life, one can taste success. Success will always follow the hard work. Clouds cannot always keep the sun in darkness.
Warren Buffet
5.SUCCESS STORY OF WARREN BUFFET
As a young boy, he delivered newspapers and filed his first tax return at age 13 – and he claimed $35 deduction for the bicycle he bought. Now he is the second richest person in the world.
The theme behind all the stories are that these leaders dream big. Really big.
Lary Page and Sergy Brin
6.SUCCESS STORY OF LARRY PAGE AND SERGEY BRIN
No need of introduction. In 1998Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Men-lo park and Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee. Rest is history. They too failed first. They approached Yahooin their earlier years for selling the idea. But the reply was NO. Then what happened. Now Google is bigger than Yahoo.
Nowadays people tend to give more focus on failures. They easily come to the conclusion that they are not capable of doing it. Any one who believes he can do it, can do it hundreds of times if he try it for 99 times. There is no short cut to success. Success can be achieved only by hard work and practice. Without these thing success will always elude you. All success people have short comings. All failed people too have short comings. The difference is that success people try hard to impair their shortcomings but failed one repent and live and die along with their shortcomings.
Lawrence "Larry" Page[2] (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. On April 4, 2011, he took on the role of chief executive officer of Google, replacing Eric Schmidt.[3][4] As of 2012, his personal wealth is estimated to be $18.7 billion.[1] He is the inventor of PageRank, which became the foundation of Google's search ranking algorithm.[5]
Early life and education
Larry Page was born in Lansing, Michigan.[6][7] His father, Carl Page, earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 1965 when the field was in its infancy, and is considered a "pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence." Both he and Page's mother were computer science professors atMichigan State University.[8][9] Gloria Page, his mother, is Jewish but he was raised without religion.[10]
Page attended the Okemos Montessori School (now called Montessori Radmoor) in Okemos, Michigan from 1975 to 1979, and graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991.[11] He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Michigan with honors and a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University. While at the University of Michigan, "Page created an inkjet printer made of Lego bricks" (actually a line plotter),[12] served as the president of the Eta Kappa Nu in Fall 1994,[13] and was a member of the 1993 "Maize & Blue" University of Michigan Solar Car team.
During an interview, Page recalled his childhood, noting that his house "was usually a mess, with computers and Popular Science magazines all over the place". His attraction to computers started when he was six years old when he got to "play with the stuff lying around". He became the "first kid in his elementary school to turn in an assignment from a word processor."[14] His older brother also taught him to take things apart, and before long he was taking "everything in his house apart to see how it worked". He said that "from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became really interested in technology...and business . . . probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually".[14]
After enrolling for a Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Larry Page was in search of a dissertation theme and considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.[15][16] His supervisor Terry Winogradencouraged him to pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got".[17] Page then focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks to be valuable information about that page (with the role ofcitations in academic publishing in mind).[16] In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student.[16]
John Battelle, co-founder of Wired magazine, wrote of Page that he had reasoned that the "entire Web was loosely based on the premise of citation – after all, what is a link but a citation? If he could devise a method to count and qualify each backlink on the Web, as Page puts it 'the Web would become a more valuable place'."[16] Battelle further described how Page and Brin began working together on the project:
- "At the time Page conceived of BackRub, the Web comprised an estimated 10 million documents, with an untold number of links between them. The computing resources required to crawl such a beast were well beyond the usual bounds of a student project. Unaware of exactly what he was getting into, Page began building out his crawler.
- "The idea's complexity and scale lured Brin to the job. A polymath who had jumped from project to project without settling on a thesis topic, he found the premise behind BackRub fascinating. "I talked to lots of research groups" around the school, Brin recalls, "and this was the most exciting project, both because it tackled the Web, which represents human knowledge, and because I liked Larry".[16]
Brin and Page originally met in March 1995, during a spring orientation of new computer Ph.D. candidates. Page, who had already been in the program for two years, was assigned to show some students, including Brin, around campus, and they later became good friends.[18]
To convert the backlink data gathered by BackRub's web crawler into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm, and realized that it could be used to build a search engine far superior to existing ones.[16] It relied on a new kind of technology that analyzed the relevance of the back links that connected one Web page to another.[18] In August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available, still on the Stanford University Web site.[16]
[edit]Business
Main articles: Google and History of Google
In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc.[19] Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google. In January 2011 Google announced that Page would replace Schmidt as CEO in April the same year.[20] Both Page and Brin earn an annual compensation of one dollar. On April 4, 2011, Page officially became the chief executive of Google, while Schmidt stepped down to become executive chairman.
[edit]Personal life
Page married Lucinda Southworth at Richard Branson's Caribbean island, Necker Island in 2007.[21] Southworth is a research scientist and sister of actress and model Carrie Southworth.[22][23][24] They have one child.
[edit]Other interests
Page is an active investor in alternative energy companies, such as Tesla Motors, which developed the Tesla Roadster, a 244-mile (393 km) rangebattery electric vehicle.[25] He continues to be committed to renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments.[14]
Brin and Page are the executive producers of the 2007 film Broken Arrows.[26]
13. Success story of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs need no introduction to anybody in the world. But you know he had slept in the floor of friends's door rooms. He returned coke bottles for money. Steve jobs while in India, regularly got weekly free meals from local temple. A below par student as per the teachers of his school. But how he made Billions. Sheer hard work and confidence in his abilities. Perseverance and sticking to his strengths and proving that he means business. Rest is history.
14) Success story of Walt Disney
A great success story.... Walt Disney dropped out from school at the age of 16. First he worked as cartoonist. Rejected from the army due to under age, He worked as a news paper artist. No body wanted to hire him as artist. Then he moved to a new job of making ads for news papers which was a temporary job. Then along with his brother he acquired Laugh-O-Gram which went into bankruptcy and he was unable to pay his debts. But he never losses heart. He continued working hard and explored newer ways of making successes and rest is history.
15) Success story of Infosys
Every one in the world now knows about Infosys. But how many knows how the company come into existence. N.R.Narayana murthy who is the founder of the company had borrowed $250 from his wife, Sudha Murthy for starting the company. Mr. Murthy had a dream. But no money. But he has the courage and knowledge and dedication. Early days the company had no phone, no car, no independent office. The company was on the brink of collapse during the early years. Still they managed to keep it float. His conviction about his skills and will power make things happen. Now Infosys is a fortune 500 company and India's second largest software company. Any one invested in 100 shares of Infosys in 1993 when the share was offered at Rs.93 to public, their wealth now stands at more than 2 Crores. This is a truely great success story.
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