5 people who have achieved success in spite of everything

No one likes to lose, but no one is insured against losses. In this article, we will tell about people like Elon Musk, Stephen King, Jim Carrey and others. go forward no matter what their injuries and a constant desire.

Hipster, 20 years old, the MacBook, a few million dollars - so to us is the Internet of young entrepreneurs. Success stories to spin, and the history of unreported losses. And it is interesting to know about them?

However, all pass through the defeat and failure, and in this article we want to show it. We will talk about five people who started from the bottom, or are faced with difficult situations and still succeed.

Jan Koum

Born in Kiev, in the 90 years Ian and his mother moved to Mountain View. His stellar career started with the position of Qom cleaner at the grocery store. For a while they lived off food stamps, and that life was hardly pleasant.

In 18 years of Qom I became interested in programming, and decided to learn on their own. At 19, he entered the W00W00 hackers group, and from that moment he began his career as a programmer. After having worked for some time in Yahoo, he went out and decided to found his own startup. This startup has become a Whatsapp.

The app was released in 2009, and downloaded it... 100 people. After such a failure Kum Whatsapp decided to quit and go back to work, but his partner Brian Acton persuaded him to wait. Over time, Whatsapp concept has changed, and it has turned into the most popular instant messenger in the world.

Lesson: Kum always reckless attitude towards the opinions of others and did only what I thought was necessary.

Elon Musk

we already written about an interesting life Elon Musk, and he, like anyone else, deserves inclusion in our list. List of failures Mask great. How big were all his company, just as there were large gaps. He almost bankrupted PayPal and was sacked CEO of PayPal and Tesla.

Launch of SpaceX rocket into space three times ended in failure and breakdown at the start. It was only the fourth time that Musk has invested in the company all his money owed huge sums and almost went bankrupt, the launch has turned out successful, and the company was reborn, like a phoenix.

Lesson: Mask helped "blunt" the tenacity and constant movement to its goal.

U2

One of the most popular bands in the history of the same face rejection. And more than once. Here is the famous letter that Bono has received from the record company.

It says that the company has listened to the recordings of the band and decided that they were not suitable for them.

Lesson: No one knows whether you will become a great or not. However, you also do not know this, if you do not aggressively move towards its goal.

Jim carrey

Jim Carrey decided to leave school and some time with his family lived in a minibus "Volkswagen". Jim, his brothers and sisters had to clean toilets and wash in the factory "Titanium wheels."

For the first time as a comedian Carrey acted in a comedy club "Yak-Yak", where his father led. Here is what he said about this statement:

"My father took me to a place called" Yak-Yak "in Toronto as soon as I turned 15, and I have done a number that we wrote together. I came on the scene, and I remember the club's owner, standing behind the stage with a microphone and boomy "Terribly boring, so boring, so boring ..." or something like that. I was wearing one of these as they're called, leisure suit, and the audience is practically threw me rotten eggs. "

Next Jim's speech occurred two years later, and even then it was waiting for success.

Lesson: To achieve the goal will have to go through the crap. In the literal and figurative sense of the word.

Stephen King

His first novel, King threw in the trash, disappointed in his abilities. Later, his wife found him and persuaded the King to finish the product and send it to the publisher. This work was the novel "Carrie", which later brought the King over $ 400,000.

LessonYou are not always right, and it is important to have someone close who can tell you about it.

Successful people from the usual distinguished not so much. Hard work, luck, risk - yes. But one of the main qualities of successful people is their neprobivaemost. They are willing to stand up after the defeat and stupid to go on, despite the environmental criticism, mistakes and misunderstandings. Favorite thing to do in spite of everything - and come to success.