The failure of the world’s top 11 successful people
Every successful person has a story of failure. No one succeeded at once. Successful Entrepreneurs, Politicians, Artists, Writers, Scientists – all of them have to overcome the difficult path of failure and finally succeed. Despite this success, many have failed again. They have risen again and succeeded again. All of these successful people have amazing mental strength and confidence. No matter how big the failure, they never stop working. They never lose faith. They have a lot to learn from these failure stories. There is something to be inspired by each story.
No matter what kind of danger or bad situation you face, if you keep in mind the story of the failure of these extraordinarily successful people and the story of overcoming failure – never lose courage or faith. No big goal will seem impossible anymore. Any failure will inspire you to turn around again. So let’s find out the story of the failure of the 11 best successful people in the world.
1. Abraham Lincoln
Born in 1809, he is the 16th President of the United States. He is considered the best President of all time in America. His contribution to the liberation of slaves in America is the greatest. He is undoubtedly one of the most successful people in the history of the world in terms of politics and fame. But his beginning is with the story of failure.
He left his job at the age of 23. At that time, he also lost his first election. At the age of 29, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives.
In 1848, 39-year-old Lincoln was defeated to be elected commissioner of the General Land Office in Washington. At the age of 49, he lost the election to become a senator. Despite so many failures, he tried not to give up politics. Finally, in 181, at the age of 52, he was elected President of the United States. Before becoming President, it was almost a failure story. But then he changed history.
2. Albert Einstein
He is one of the most famous and successful scientists in the history of the world. He is so successful that most people think of him as a ‘scientist.’ He is called one of the best talents in the history of the world. But the German genius, born in 189, was considered an asshole for a time. He was not good at all. It took him four years to learn to speak. He was very raw in his studies. At the age of 18, he failed the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School entrance examination in Zurich.
While studying at the university, he had such bad results in every subject that he had to think of dropping out more than once. His father’s only grief at the time of his death was that this donkey boy could do nothing in life. Einstein remembered his father’s words for a long time.
Unable to find a job, he was forced to work as an insurance salesman. If there were no work, people would do this kind of job. After two years, he got a job in the patent office, where new devices were tested before being patented.
But at one point, this man changed the face of the world. With that ‘pulse brain,’ he has created several basic formulas in physics. Proved that everything is possible with everyone if you try.
3. Bill Gates
Although Jeff Bezos of Amazon is now the richest man globally, many still think that Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. Because for so long, he has been the number one richest man in the world, someone else has taken his place – that’s what many don’t know.
He is one of the biggest contributors to the computer revolution in today’s world. It is also written on the Windows computer operating system that he created, using the Microsoft Word that he created. Most of the computers in the world still run on his company’s software.
But did you know that Bill Gates’ first project failed miserably? Microsoft co-founder and childhood friend Paul Allen and Bill Gates co-created a machine called “Traf-O-Data” that collects data from traffic counters and arranges it for government traffic engineers. Thus the work had to be done by hand.
Seattle’s traffic supervisor himself came to the opening of this device. But after turning on the device, I somehow worked. Such shame and humiliation never came in Gates’ life. But they did not stop. Learning from this failure, Bill and Paul later made Microsoft a success.
4. Jack’s mother
There is nothing new to say about Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba. Everyone knows that this rich Chinese businessman has risen from a very normal position to become one of the world’s richest and most famous people. Developed one of the largest companies in the world today. And the story of the failure of this extraordinarily successful man is like a tragedy serial.
At the time of admission to the college, he failed the admission test 3 times and got the opportunity for the 4th time. After that, he failed many times while going to work! Nine people got jobs in 10 police exams, and Jack was left out. Out of 24 people in KFC, 23 got jobs except for Jack. He tried ten times at Harvard but did not get the chance. After many failures, he finally succeeded in establishing Alibaba.
5. Charlie Chaplin
Everyone knows the world-famous actor and director Charlie Chaplin, who was born in 189. From the beginning of the movie till today, all the movie lunatics love and respect him. He is one of the most successful actors and directors in the world. He is called the king of comedy. – Everyone knows these things. So let’s find out today
some things that not everyone knows: Chaplin’s father was a drunkard. He did not do any work, and he used to drink alcohol day and night. Chaplin’s father left home when he was two years old. Mother used to do a nominal job so that the family’s expenses would not be met in any way.
At the age of 6, Charlie was forced to move to a “workhouse.” At that time, there was a system for the poor in Britain, where food and bedding were provided in return for hard work.
A few days later, Charlie came back from there, and again at the age of 9, his mother went crazy, and he had to go to a mental hospital. Chaplin has to go back to the workshop because of his mother’s mental illness. A few days later, his father died of liver failure.
Then his mother’s insanity increased so much that he needed to be kept in the insane asylum for all time. Chaplin and his brother Sidney sat down on the road. Day after day, he wanders the streets without eating.
At one point, he took to the stage. He strengthened his comedy talent by acting in various stage plays. He later moved to Hollywood and became the best silent actor of all time.
6. Connell Sanders
You must have seen the KFC logo. Connell Sanders is the man with the French-cut beard and smiling logo. He is the founder of KFC, the world’s largest and most popular fast-food chain. If you want to open a KFC branch in your area, you have to pay 45 thousand dollars or about 36 lakh rupees to use their franchise. He had to fail 1009 times to sell the recipe of such a big company.
His struggle began when he lost his father at the age of five. It has never been difficult to get a job because of my cooking skills. But whenever you try to do something on your own, you fail. In 1939, at the age of 49, he started a motel with great difficulty. The motel was destroyed by fire after four months. At age 50, he started working on his secret chicken fry recipe.
In 1955, another attempt failed. He opened a restaurant at a crossroads. It was going well. But as a result of the new road, the traffic on that road stopped, so the restaurant had to close. Connell, 65, had only 175 that year. He then tried to sell his chicken recipe. After giving him back 1009 restaurants, one restaurant agreed to work on his recipe. You can understand the rest.
7. Henry Ford
Born in Michigan, the USA, in 183, Henry Ford is the founder of the world-famous car company Ford Motors. It is one of the oldest and most profitable car manufacturing companies in the world. Henry Ford has made his company successful in his lifetime and has become one of the world’s richest and most successful people. Although he is considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world – at first, he was a failed man.
Honestly, he worked for others until he was 35 years old. In 1898 he built an automatic car engine and showed it to everyone, and William H. Get the investment of a rich man named Murphy. The following year, Ford founded his first car company, the Detroit Automobile Company (not Ford Motors).
The company failed in 1901. The project was not successful due to the inability to repay the loan and problems in car design. Ford may persuade an investor to try a few days again after the company stops working. But it also stopped after a few days because investors could not agree on anything.
Finally, in 1903, at the age of 40, Ford started a company under his name. This time he persuaded the new investor, Scottish coal trader Malcomson that he would not give up on the business. Only his profit will understand the money. And then Ford began to act like his own. The rest is just a success story.
8. Thomas Alva Edison
No educated person in today’s world does not know the name of Thomas Alva Edison. He is indebted to the world for inventing thousands of electric lamps, movies, audio recordings, encrypted telegraph systems, modern batteries.
Born in Ohio, the USA, in 1848, the genius developed a complex disease called scarlet fever as a child, which left him almost deaf. His school life was only 12 weeks. The letter from the school said that Thomas was very inattentive in his studies and his talent was not good. Such a weak student could not be kept in the school. But Thomas’s mother opened the letter and told her son that Thomas’s talent was much higher than that of ordinary students and that ordinary schools could not teach such a gifted student. So he should be taught at home. It was from this confidence in his mother that Thomas began to study all the more complex things. And it was because of this confidence that he would not accept failure in anything. His experiment failed 10,000 times when he invented the electric lamp. But he still kept trying. Because as a child, his mother instilled in him the belief that nothing is impossible.
Edison found the letter, written in harsh language, many years later, and his mother hid it. By then, the mother had died. Thomas has become a famous scientist and rich entrepreneur. Reading the letter, Thomas can understand everything. And wrote in his diary, “Thomas Alva Edison was an incompetent child. Inspired by an extraordinary mother, she became the best genius of the age.”
9. Winston Churchill
Maybe you don’t know who this guy is – but you must have heard the name once or twice. There are very few people in the modern world who have not heard of Winston Churchill. He is, in fact, one of the most famous politicians in British history. Born in 184, Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1951 to 1955. Many of his sayings about failure and success have found a place among the best sayings in the world. His famous saying about failure, “Failure is not the end; You have to have the courage to move forward even after failure” or “Success means the journey from one failure to another without losing motivation”- these are the ones you must have heard. Because some of the best quotes about failure come from him, he has seen failure up close. There are stories of failure throughout the life of this successful man.
He failed the entrance test for the Royal Military College twice. When he got the chance for the 3rd time, he had to choose a lower division. Although then he climbed a lot with his efforts. He is one of the few politicians in the history of Britain to lose five elections in his political career.
You would be surprised to know that this speaker, one of the best in history, had a problem speaking. He has been suffering from depression for a long time. Due to problems after giving the speech, special medicine had to be made for him. But none of this stopped him from trying.
10. JK Rowling
No one could be as rich as him just by writing books. JK Rowling is the only author in the world to become a billionaire by writing a book. The books in his Harry Potter series are the best-selling book series in the history of the world. And the movies made from this series are all blockbuster hits. Undoubtedly in terms of popularity and finances, he is one of the most successful writers in history. But do you know, after how many struggles Harry Potter was released?
He was not very good at studying. He graduated from Exeter University after being rejected with a test at Oxford University. After finishing his studies, he did not get a good job and moved to Portugal at one point. There he married a grumpy man who would put his hand on his body in words. In 1993, at the age of 36, he returned to England with his only daughter and began living with his sister. During this time, he calculated that he had failed miserably in everything in life. He became a patient of depression and even considered suicide. But thinking about his daughter, he regained his composure and wrote Harry Potter’s book, honing his writing talent. That’s how two years pass. Little by little, he finished writing Harry Potter’s first book in 1995. The purpose of writing the book was to try to turn the corner of one’s life through writing. Rowling was spending the day with her only daughter without eating. But that book was also rejected by 14 publishing houses.
Finally, in 1997, a small publishing house called Bloomsbury agreed to publish the book. Harry Potter’s first book was published in 1997 and caused a stir all over the world. Rowling is surprised to see that he has benefited from trying even after so many failures. More and more books are coming out, one after another, superhit movies are coming out. In 2004, Rowling became the first writer in the history of the world to become a billionaire by writing only books.
11. Michael Jordan
Many other basketball players’ names may not be heard by many in life, but everyone knows Michael Jordan. He is the best basketball player of all time in the world. Millions of young people who play basketball dream of becoming Michael Jordan. Jordan himself dreamed of becoming a great basketball player one day. But at the age of 15, his first dream was shattered. He tried hard to get a place in the high school team. But when the team members’ names are hung on the notice board, he sees that his name is not there. He was told that he was not talented enough to play in the team. She broke down in tears. Think you won’t play basketball anymore. But his mother told him to practice better. If he feels tired in practice, let him imagine the notice board – where his name was not.
Jordan then began to practice on his day and night. And the ‘untrained’ Jordan got a chance in the NBA league at the age of 21. Then at one point, he became the best player of all time.