Inspirational

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.
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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency,
told
modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial
work or
else get married." Norma went on to become Marilyn Monroe.
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In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer
after
one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere....son. You
ought to
go back to drivin' a truck. " He went on to become the most popular
singer
in America named Elvis Presley.
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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, Pres...