Persistency and Vision

There are many individuals, companies and ideas that started without much success and did not look very promising at beginning, but they turned out to be very successful because they had a vision of the future, sat goals with determination to achieve, and stayed persistent to turn their goals into reality.

–Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his telephone patent to Western Union for $100,000, but Western Union turned it down. They didn’t see much value in something that has literally and virtually changed how the world communicates today.

–Edwin Land created the instant camera and tried to sell his idea to Kodak but was not successful. So, he started Polaroid Corporation which became very successful and a competitor to Kodak.

–The Cosby Show could not find a home at any of the networks at the beginning. Finally, NBC agreed to take it because they were desperate and needed to fill its schedule.

–Bruce Lee was rejected for the television show called “Kung Fu” because he was not an experienced actor. So, the directors of the show decided to use David Karadeen as the star of the show. However, Bruce followed his dream and turned it into reality.

–Michael Jordan, basketball star of the Chicago Bulls, did not make the first cut at his high school basketball team. However, he later became one of the best basketball players of the 1990’s. He lead his team to four NBA championships. It was announced that by the time he was 30 years of age, he had missed over 9,000 shots throughout his college and NBA basketball career; yet he was the best player of the decade because he kept setting higher goals and learned to make them happen by working hard and continuously learning.

By Ahmed