The road to success is challenging. There is no one in the world who hasn’t struggled his way to the top. It’s never easy for anyone. Luck doesn’t always favour you. You have to get up and get going. Even the most successful people in the world have faced failures, and too many of them. But he who rises up against obstacles and continues the race forward is the one who reaches the top.
Here are some successful people who faced huge failures early in life, but didn’t stop trying.
“Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was accused of lack of creativity in the beginning of his career. Not letting himself get bogged down by an early rejection, he went on to give the world characters like Donald Duck and Goofy.”
The man who is believed to have revolutionized industrial production in the 20th century suffered many a loss in business. Failed businesses and bankruptcy didn’t discourage him from trying to build one of the most successful car companies in the world.”
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, is regarded as one of the greatest presidents in the history of the US. And yet his start was not exactly smooth. A humiliating demotion in the army (he went to war as a captain but returned as a private which is the lowest rank in the army), a series of failed businesses, and repeated defeat at elections could have broken the toughest of men.”
The genius of a scientist most famous for his theory of relativity was mistaken to be retarded by his parents when he was a child. His grades in school were consistently poor and he couldn’t even read till the age of seven. No one could have predicted the child would go on to win the Nobel prize in physics.
The creator of the bewitching world of Harry Potter lived a far from comfortable life before her books became a rage across the world. Struggling as a single mother raising her child in absolute poverty, Rowling was living on government welfare when she wrote her first Harry Potter book. Today, she is one of the richest women in the UK.”
The Bollywood star Amitav Bachan needs no introduction. He is one of the most iconic actors alive today. And yet, luck didn’t shine on him too soon in Bollywood. He had his share of failures before he finally turned around his fate.