Great people and Wrong Decisions...

Hi all, here are some of the stories of great people at times making wrong decisions about great personalities (like me)... Candidate for a news broadcasters post was rejected by officials since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous. He is Amitabh Bachan. A small boy - the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets. The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India single-handedly- Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, “We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.” The group was called The Beatles. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of them?" When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process." A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life. The boy went on to become Albert Einstein. Last but not least... A young bright youth not recognised by Indian IT giants and Corporates started a small outfit which is going to be one maong the top 10 Fortune 500 companies in the world and the youth is none other than Mahendran (CEO, IntelliNet Corporation). (FYI, IntelliNet is yet to be started and looking out for some ilichavaayans to invest) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mahen