Thought I would share some
interesting Monday Motivation success stories for anyone having the Monday
blues:
Henry Ford - the pioneer of modern business
entrepreneurs and the founder of the Ford Motor Company failed a number of
times on his route to success. His first venture to build a motor car got
dissolved a year and a half after it was started because the stockholders lost
confidence in Henry Ford. Ford was able to gather enough capital to start again
but a year later pressure from the financiers forced him out of the company
again. Despite the fact that the entire motor industry had lost faith in him he
managed to find another investor to start the Ford Motor Company - and the rest
is history.
Walt Disney - one of the greatest business leaders who
created the global Disney empire of film studios, theme parks and consumer
products didn't start off successful. Before the great success came a number of
failures. Believe it or not, Walt was fired from an early job at the Kansas
City Star Newspaper because he was not creative enough! In 1922 he started his
first company called Laugh-O-Gram. The Kansas based business would produce
cartoons and short advertising films. In 1923, the business went bankrupt. Walt
didn't give up, he packed up, went to Hollywood and started The Walt Disney
Company.
Richard Branson - He is undoubtedly a successful
entrepreneur with many successful ventures to his name including Virgin
Atlantic, Virgin Music and Virgin Active. However, when he was 16 he dropped
out of school to start a student magazine that didn't do as well as he hoped.
He then set up a mail-order record business which did so well that he opened
his own record shop called Virgin. Along the way to success came many other
failed ventures including Virgin Cola, Virgin Vodka, Virgin Clothes, Virgin
Vie, Virgin cards, etc.
Oprah Winfrey - who ranks No 1 in the Forbes celebrity
list and is recognised as the queen of entertainment based on an amazing career
as iconic talk show host, media proprietor, actress and producer. In her
earlier career she had numerous set-backs, which included getting fired from
her job as a reporter because she was 'unfit for television', getting fired as
co-anchor for the 6 O'clock weekday news on WJZ-TV and being demoted to morning
TV.
J.K. Rowling - who wrote the Harry Potter books selling
over 400 million copies and making it one of the most successful and lucrative
book and film series ever. However, like so many writers she received endless
rejections from publishers. Many rejected her manuscript outright for reasons
like 'it was far too long for a children's book' or because 'children books
never make any money'. J.K. Rowling's story is even more inspiring because when
she started she was a divorced single mum on welfare.
Bill Gates -co-founder and chairman of Microsoft set
up a business called Traf-O-Data. The partnership between him, Paul Allen and
Paul Gilbert was based on a good idea (to read data from roadway traffic
counters and create automated reports on traffic flows) but a flawed business
model that left the company with few customers. The company ran up losses
between 1974 and 1980 before it was closed. However, Bill Gates and Paul Allen
took what they learned and avoided those mistakes when they created the
Microsoft empire.
Thanks to “The One Thing
Successful People Never Do” by Bernard Marr, Best-Selling Author, we learn that
the moral of the story is this: Don’t
give up! Some of the world’s most successful people failed countless times
before having to pick themselves up and carry on. Nothing worth having is easy.
For the above influencers it was “their ferocious drive and hunger for success
makes them never give up.”
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