NEVER SAY DIE
The ‘V’ sign made using the
index finger and the middle finger used to be considered a rude English
hand sign in the Middle Ages. The French would cut off the middle and
index fingers of any English bowman so that they could never shoot
again. The English would taunt the French by raising their fingers to
say, “I can still shoot you…” However, this ‘V’ sign changed its
complete meaning when Winston Churchill raised his fingers to depict
‘victory’. He was the man who was the ‘rock star’ of World War II, for
he never gave up and told his people to do the same. He prepared the
nation for battle with the Nazi army and after five years of fighting
and a near defeat, victory was finally theirs. It was this attitude that
brought them success and ‘victory’. He was one of the finest leaders of
Britain and his leadership capabilities were best displayed during the
Second World War. Consider the fact that this was the same boy who
stuttered as a child, did poorly in school and was rejected by both
Oxford and Cambridge. Churchill never gave up till he succeeded.
He also did not do well in
school, so he decided to grow Christmas trees and raise budgerigars.
Both his projects failed. However, by the age of 16, he was able to
publish a magazine and start a small mail-order business. Today his
group ‘Virgin’ is a conglomerate of 200 companies present in 30
countries. Not just this world, Richard Branson soon plans to expand his
business beyond the planet. He plans to take ordinary people into space
on Virgin Galactic. The man thinks, looks and works like a rock star.
He grew up in an orphanage as
his widowed mother could not support him. He worked in a factory that
made moulds for auto parts and frames of eyeglasses. At 23, he opened
his own eyeglass frame shop and today, his company ‘Luxottica’ is the
world’s largest maker of eyeglasses, glares, et al. Today, Leonardo Del Vecchio is valued at $10 billion!
It’s been noted that two-thirds
of the world’s billionaires made their fortunes by starting from zero.
It was not inheritance but persistence that made them succeed.
Easier said than done, but this is the true spirit of a ‘rock star’. They never give up, they never say die.
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