He is a Singaporean. As a kid, he is a fan of games and TV. He could for hours in front of the TV. Both play PS or watching TV.
Adam Khoo is also known as a dumb child. When the fourth grade, he was expelled from school. He went into the worst primary school in Singapore. When he will enter junior high school, he was rejected by six of the best junior high school in there.
Finally, he could get into the worst school in Singapore. Once the collapsed academic achievement, but improved over time precisely because the scorn of his friends, until finally gaining success in the business world. He already has four businesses with a total value of turnover per year U.S. $ 20 million when he is 26 years old.
The story of Adam's business began when he was 15 years old. He was doing music box business. The next businesses are training and seminars business. At the age of 22, Adam Khoo is a national trainer in Singapore. His clients are the managers and top managers of companies in Singapore. His pay was U.S. $ 10,000 per hour.
Albert Enstein
Who would not know Albert Einstein? He was the famous 20th century scientist known for his theory of relativity. He was also one Nobel laureate. Who would have thought he was a child who is late to talk and also suffer from autism. As a child he also likes negligent with lessons.
Aristotle Onassis
At school, he was dumb and likes to find the case, following the example of many rich people. Not funny if he was expelled from several schools. He most often ranked the lowest in his class.
Classmates adore him, but the teachers and their families despair. While he was young, one can easily see that he will be among those who would destroy themselves or succeed at all glorious. His report although far from a good, his talent to trade and make money has been shown since early eventually he became a millionaire.
Thomas Alva Edison
One day, a boy aged 4 years old, somewhat deaf and dumb in school, go home to his house carrying a piece of paper from his teacher. His mother read the paper,
“To Tommy’s Mother, Tommy is very dumb, we asked to remove him from the school.”
The mother was shocked to read this letter, but he soon made a firm determination, "My son Tommy, not a dumb child. I will educate and teach him by myself. "
Little Tommy was Thomas Alva Edison we know today, one of the greatest inventors in the world. He is only went about 3 months, and physically somewhat deaf, but it was not a barrier to moving forward.
Anyone who previously thought that the deaf boy that stupid as to be asked out of school, ultimately could become a genius? The answer is his mother! Yes, Nancy Edison, mother of Thomas Alva Edison, do not give up so easily with the opinion of the school for their children.
Chris Gardner
Do you ever watched a movie or read a book Pursuit of Happiness? That's the real life story of Christopher Paul Gardner, played by Will Smith. He felt bitter sweetness of life. Homeless, abandoned wives, was arrested by police, difficulty paying the loan, all of them are already being felt. He is not a highly educated man but he continued to try and fighting, now he became a success millionaire, motivator, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Now he has a Gardner Rich & Co., a stock brokerage firm.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
If you know a woman who is pregnant, who have had 8 children, three of them deaf, two blind, one mentally disturbed and the woman herself suffered from syphilis, would you recommend for abortion? If you answered yes, then you've just killed one of the best composers in the world. Because the child was conceived by the mother is Ludwig Van Beethoven.
When Beethoven was at the end of the twenties, his signs of deaf began to appear, but eventually he became famous composers with works of nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, five piano concertos, 10 sonatas for piano and violin, a series of stunning string quartet, vocal music , music theater, and more.
Louis Braille
Louis Braille was damaged in one eye when he was 3 years old. At that time he accidentally stabbed his own eyes with a hole-maker from his father's work tools. Then the other eye affected by sympathetic ophthalmia, a type of infection that occurs because of damage to the other eye.
Blindness does not deter him, he created the Braille alphabet that helps the blind can read. Now who does not know Braille Alphabet?
Abraham Lincoln
The story of Lincoln is a classic example of people who actually dare to fail.
- Failed in business in1831.
- Defeated in the Legislature in 1832.
- Failed again in business at tahun1833.
- Had a broken spirit in 1836.
- Failed to win the speech contest on tahun1838.
- Failure to occupy the board of the voters in 1840.
- Failed to be elected to Congress in 1843.
- Failed to be elected Congress in 1846.
- Failed to Congress in 1848.
- Failed to become a member of the senate in 1855.
- Failed to Become President In Year 1856.
- Fails To become a senate member of the Board in 1858.
Bill Gates
Well, there does not know Bill Gates? William Henry Gates III, or better known as Bill Gates is the founder (with Paul Allen) and a general chairman of the U.S. software company, Microsoft. He was also a philanthropist through his activities in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
He occupies the first position in the world's richest man by Forbes magazine for 13 years (1995 to 2007). Who would have thought he dropped out of Harvard and previously worked as an Office boy.
Mark Zuckerberg
This one is crowned as the youngest billionaire in the history of the start of his own. How not, starting from a site liaison Harvard students, but many like it, with desperate he followed his senior, Bill Gates, dropped out of Harvard to develop the site to be up that we know today.
Did You Know? Mark has turned down an offer to buy Friendster is up 10 million U.S. $, Viacom's offer of 750 million dollars, and the most surprising offer from the yahoo one billion dollars.