English Project - Success

English Project - Success and Failure

By Tudor Durduman Burtescu

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Success is not defined by one thing, but many.

The more of these elements you include in your life, like Action, Habit, Learn, Open Mind, Simplicity, and even more, the more successful you will become

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What is success?

Success doesn't exist without failure

What do I mean by that?

Failure takes place everyday, in within families, jobs, school and housework. It is unavoidable and gives you negative feelings.

​But Henry Ford once said that failure is simply the opportunity of

​to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The following slides are about success stories of famous people, based on failure.​

​During a Harvard opening speech, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling highlighted​ the value of failure, especially becuase she said that she was a failure herself.

​A few short years after her graduation from college, her worst nightmares were realized. She mentioned that she was feeling like she had failed on a gargantuan scale, because she was jobless, poor and a single parent.

​Coming out of this failure more determined was the key to her success.

J. K . Rowling

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​The now revolutionary Apple started with two people in a garage and ended up as a billion dollar company.

But surpisingly, Steve at some point actually got fired from Apple.​

​This made him realize that his passion for his work exceeded the disappointment of failure. And in that time Jobs started working on new projects such as NeXT and Pixar, thateventually led Jobs back to the CEO position at Apple. 

Jobs said in 2005 that being fired from Apple was one of the best things that ever happened to him.

Steve Jobs

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Bill Gates actually dropped out Harvard and he tried building a business called Traf-O-Data, which was a failure.

However, with his abilities and a passion for computer programming, he turned this failure into the pioneer of famous software company Microsoft, and the then him into the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.

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Bill Gates

​Failing in business in 1831, suffering mental health problembs in 1836, defeated in his run for president in 1856, for Abraham Lincoln was familiar rejection and failure. Rather than taking these signs as a reason for giving up, he refused to stop trying his best.

​Lincoln was elected in 1861 as the 16th President of the United States of America.

The amount of rejection you receive is not a defining factor. Success is still within your reach.

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Abraham Lincoln

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During his lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh suffered mental illnesses, failed relationships, and took his life at the age of 37.

He only sold two paintings in his life, pinning him a failure as an artist. However he didn't give up on his enthusiasm and passion for art.

He would never know that ages after his death he would become one of the greatest artist that ever lived.

​Vincent Van Gogh​

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Altough ‘Einstein’ is associated with intelligence and synonymous with genius, Albert Einstein himself, could not speak fluently until the age of nine. His rebellious personality led to the expulsion from school, and he was not admitted to the Zurich Polytechnic School.

His earlier problems did not stop him from winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. After all, he believed that success represents failure in progress.

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Albert Einstein

​Mickey Mouse creator Walt Disney dropped out of school when he was young in a failed attempt to the army. One of his earlier attempts, Laugh-o-Gram Studios, went bankrupt due to his lack of ability to manage a business. He once lost his job from a Missouri newspaper for “not being creative enough.”

Yet today, The genius behind Disney is responsible for generations of childhood memories and dreams. From Snow White to Frozen, Disney will continue to entertain the world in the far future.

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​Walt Disney

Conclusion

Success comes from moments of frustrations when you’ll be feeling the most unpleasing with. But after you’ve gone through all those bad times, you’ll become better and you’ll get closer to success, as you can see from those people's failure-success stories.

So, in conclusion if ​you won, continue! If you failed, still continue!

​ The End

Thank you for your attention!​