People who took a risk

[Walrus]

Hey real quick, for a project I need someone (Famous, preferably, maybe an athlete?) who took a risk to get to where they are/hit on society. Just need a name, and maybe a link or two on reports on them. If I end up using it, I'll send over a few dollars, thanks!

And please no obvious people like MLK, Abraham Lincoln etc. (Also can be any time era, I prefer present times though)

 

[chucK_]

Tommy John.

Pitcher, had the surgery now named for him (first ever time surgery was preformed). He ended up having an amazing career and making the hall of fame.

 

[Walrus]

Tommy John.

Pitcher, had the surgery now named for him (first ever time surgery was preformed). He ended up having an amazing career and making the hall of fame.

Ill actually consider that one, if I do end up using it tomorrow at school, Ill surely send you some $$.

http://www.forbes.com/2011/03/07/greatest-risk-they-ever-took-2011-entrepreneurs_slide.html Paypal is in signature L)

Yea Ive already saw that, bunch of people I dont really care to do research on, thanks for the effort though!

 

[Walrus]

bump

 

[Paradise]

How about Some one like Nelson mandela? Martin Luther King Jr?

 

[Walrus]

How about Some one like Nelson mandela? Martin Luther King Jr?

Unfortunately, them being pretty known they are already taken.

 

[Paradise]

Unfortunately, them being pretty known they are already taken.

Hmm Let me do a bit of research [DOUBLEPOST=1449110038,1449109960][/DOUBLEPOST]Bill Gate's? Steve Job's?

 

[Wut]

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Hmm Let me do a bit of research [DOUBLEPOST=1449110038,1449109960][/DOUBLEPOST]Bill Gate's? Steve Job's?

err, why did you put apostrophes inside of their names?

 

[Walrus]

Hmm Let me do a bit of research [DOUBLEPOST=1449110038,1449109960][/DOUBLEPOST]Bill Gate's? Steve Job's?

Thanks! However, what risks did Steve Job's take? (I know he was kicked out of apple or something, but is that a risk?)

 

[Style]

Style
- risked his life selling OGs

 

[F16]

ulysses s grant

 

[bigbubba]

Colonel Sanders : The founder of KFC. He started his dream at 65 years old! He got a social security check for only $105 and was mad. Instead of complaining he did something about it. He thought restaurant owners would love his fried chicken recipe, use it, sales would increase, and he’d get a percentage of it. He drove around the country knocking on doors, sleeping in his car, wearing his white suit.
Do you know how many times people said no till he got one yes? 1009 times!

Walt Disney: The man who gave us Disney World and Mickey Mouse. His first animation company went banktrupt. He was fired by a news editor cause he lacked imagination. Legend has it he was turned down 302 times before he got financing for creating Disney World.

Albert Eistein: He didn’t speak till he was four and didn’t read till seven. His parents and teachers thought he was mentally handicapped. He only turned out to win a Nobel prize and be the face of modern physics.

Richard Branson: He’s a billionaire mogul of Virgin but has had his share of failures. Remember Virgin Cola or Virgin credit cards? Probably not. He’s lost hundreds of millions of dollars but has not let failure stop him. When you’re rich like him you can rent his private island for $53,000 a night.

Mark Cuban: The billionaire owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks got rich when he sold his company to Yahoo for $5.9 billion in stock. He admitted he was terrible at his early jobs. His parents wanted him to have a normal job. So he tried carpentry but hated it. He was a short order cook but a terrible one. He waited tables but couldn’t open a bottle of wine. He says of his failures,“I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter how many times you failed,” Cuban says. “You only have to be right once. I tried to sell powdered milk. I was an idiot lots of times, and I learned from them all.”

Vincent Van Gogh: He only sold one painting in his lifetime! Just one to a friend. Despite that he kept painting and finished over 800 pieces. Now everyone wants to buy them and his most expensive painting is valued at $142.7 million.

Theodor Seuss Giesel: Dr. Seuss gave us Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. Books every child reads. At first many didn’t think he would succeed. 27 different publishers rejected Dr. Seuss’s first book To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

John Grisham: The American author first was a lawyer who loved to write. His first book A Time to Kill took three years to write. The book was rejected 28 times until he got one yes for a 5,000 copy print. He’s sold over 250 million total copies of his books.

Steven Spielberg: He applied and was denied two times to the prestigious University of Southern California film school. Instead he went to Cal State University in Long Beach.
He went on to direct some of the biggest movie blockbusters in history. Now he’s worth $2.7 billion and in 1994 got an honorary degree from the film school that rejected him twice.

Stephen King: His first book Carrie was rejected 30 times and he threw it in the trash. His wife retrieved it out of the trash and encouraged him to resubmit it. The rest is history. He has sold more than 350 million copies of his books. (He’s also made many adults fear clowns too.)

Stephenie Meyer: The author of the crazy Twilight series said the inspiration from the book came from a dream. She finished it in three months but never intended to publish it until a friend suggested she should. She wrote 15 letters to literary agencies. Five didn’t reply. Nine rejected. One gave her a chance. Then eight publishers auctioned for the right to publish Twilight. She got a three book deal worth $750,000. In 2010, Forbes reported she earned $40 million.

Tim Ferris: The man behind the 4 Hour Workweek, who changed how many people view work and life, was rejected by 26 publishers before one gave him a chance. It’s been on the bestseller’s list for years, sold all over the world, and last year published The 4 Hour Body that went to #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list.

The Beatles: They were rejected by many record labels. In a famous rejection, the label said, “”guitar groups are on the way out” and “the Beatles have no future in show business”. After that the Beatles signed with EMI, brought Beatlemania to the United States, and became the greatest band in history.

Michael Jordan: He’s famous for being cut from his high school basketball team. He turned out to be the greatest basketball player but never let failure deter him. I love this quote… “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

Thomas Edison: No list of success from failures would be complete without the man who gave us many inventions including the light bulb. He knew failure wouldn’t stop him.


Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi, developers
Kochi: "Starting an innovation group and having a startup within a very large organization are probably the riskiest things we've ever done. There isn't really any structure to support us, but we just thought it was a good idea so we said 'Lets do it.' And thankfully, we did have support in the end."
Fabian: "I think the riskiest thing that I did last year was presenting a failure fair at the UN. We're very lucky to have the support of our executive director and people inside UNICEF who recognize that with every success is a string of failures."


Magnus Carlsen, chess wunderkind
"I decided to be a professional chess player. At that point, it wasn't a particularly risky decision, because I was already, you know, quite good."


Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square
"I don't know if there is something that's the riskiest ... I'm scared every day. It's a good thing. You want to take big risks."
Dorsey was on Time 100's list in 2012 and wrote the bio for Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi this year.

Source : https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131003210254AADTBrN

 

[Paradise]

Colonel Sanders : The founder of KFC. He started his dream at 65 years old! He got a social security check for only $105 and was mad. Instead of complaining he did something about it. He thought restaurant owners would love his fried chicken recipe, use it, sales would increase, and he’d get a percentage of it. He drove around the country knocking on doors, sleeping in his car, wearing his white suit.
Do you know how many times people said no till he got one yes? 1009 times!

Walt Disney: The man who gave us Disney World and Mickey Mouse. His first animation company went banktrupt. He was fired by a news editor cause he lacked imagination. Legend has it he was turned down 302 times before he got financing for creating Disney World.

Albert Eistein: He didn’t speak till he was four and didn’t read till seven. His parents and teachers thought he was mentally handicapped. He only turned out to win a Nobel prize and be the face of modern physics.

Richard Branson: He’s a billionaire mogul of Virgin but has had his share of failures. Remember Virgin Cola or Virgin credit cards? Probably not. He’s lost hundreds of millions of dollars but has not let failure stop him. When you’re rich like him you can rent his private island for $53,000 a night.

Mark Cuban: The billionaire owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks got rich when he sold his company to Yahoo for $5.9 billion in stock. He admitted he was terrible at his early jobs. His parents wanted him to have a normal job. So he tried carpentry but hated it. He was a short order cook but a terrible one. He waited tables but couldn’t open a bottle of wine. He says of his failures,“I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter how many times you failed,” Cuban says. “You only have to be right once. I tried to sell powdered milk. I was an idiot lots of times, and I learned from them all.”

Vincent Van Gogh: He only sold one painting in his lifetime! Just one to a friend. Despite that he kept painting and finished over 800 pieces. Now everyone wants to buy them and his most expensive painting is valued at $142.7 million.

Theodor Seuss Giesel: Dr. Seuss gave us Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. Books every child reads. At first many didn’t think he would succeed. 27 different publishers rejected Dr. Seuss’s first book To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.

John Grisham: The American author first was a lawyer who loved to write. His first book A Time to Kill took three years to write. The book was rejected 28 times until he got one yes for a 5,000 copy print. He’s sold over 250 million total copies of his books.

Steven Spielberg: He applied and was denied two times to the prestigious University of Southern California film school. Instead he went to Cal State University in Long Beach.
He went on to direct some of the biggest movie blockbusters in history. Now he’s worth $2.7 billion and in 1994 got an honorary degree from the film school that rejected him twice.

Stephen King: His first book Carrie was rejected 30 times and he threw it in the trash. His wife retrieved it out of the trash and encouraged him to resubmit it. The rest is history. He has sold more than 350 million copies of his books. (He’s also made many adults fear clowns too.)

Stephenie Meyer: The author of the crazy Twilight series said the inspiration from the book came from a dream. She finished it in three months but never intended to publish it until a friend suggested she should. She wrote 15 letters to literary agencies. Five didn’t reply. Nine rejected. One gave her a chance. Then eight publishers auctioned for the right to publish Twilight. She got a three book deal worth $750,000. In 2010, Forbes reported she earned $40 million.

Tim Ferris: The man behind the 4 Hour Workweek, who changed how many people view work and life, was rejected by 26 publishers before one gave him a chance. It’s been on the bestseller’s list for years, sold all over the world, and last year published The 4 Hour Body that went to #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list.

The Beatles: They were rejected by many record labels. In a famous rejection, the label said, “”guitar groups are on the way out” and “the Beatles have no future in show business”. After that the Beatles signed with EMI, brought Beatlemania to the United States, and became the greatest band in history.

Michael Jordan: He’s famous for being cut from his high school basketball team. He turned out to be the greatest basketball player but never let failure deter him. I love this quote… “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

Thomas Edison: No list of success from failures would be complete without the man who gave us many inventions including the light bulb. He knew failure wouldn’t stop him.


Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi, developers
Kochi: "Starting an innovation group and having a startup within a very large organization are probably the riskiest things we've ever done. There isn't really any structure to support us, but we just thought it was a good idea so we said 'Lets do it.' And thankfully, we did have support in the end."
Fabian: "I think the riskiest thing that I did last year was presenting a failure fair at the UN. We're very lucky to have the support of our executive director and people inside UNICEF who recognize that with every success is a string of failures."


Magnus Carlsen, chess wunderkind
"I decided to be a professional chess player. At that point, it wasn't a particularly risky decision, because I was already, you know, quite good."


Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square
"I don't know if there is something that's the riskiest ... I'm scared every day. It's a good thing. You want to take big risks."
Dorsey was on Time 100's list in 2012 and wrote the bio for Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi this year.

Geezus it's only for a Dollar
Nah but gg man

 

[Walrus]

- SNIP -

I've got a feeling you copied and pasted this off an article? Also, by reading the first few they are only stories of how they got to where they are, I don't see any risks they took. Things like Bill Gates dropping out of college, MLK risking his life etc.


Also, if I do get a good enough answer I'll pay a few dollars instead of $1

 

[bigbubba]

Source : https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131003210254AADTBrN

Geezus it's only for a Dollar
Nah but gg man

xD

 

[Paradise]

I've got a feeling you copied and pasted this off an article? Also, by reading the first few they are only stories of how they got to where they are, I don't see any risks they took. Things like Bill Gates dropping out of college, MLK risking his life etc.

Bill Gate's Dropped out of college to pursue a dream. And did so. He revolutionized the modern world and stuff XD