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Panasonic |
Konosuke Matsushita began the
Panasonic’s journey by
inventing a two-socket light
fixture. The invention was rejected
by his employer, so Matsushita left
the company and founded the
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Beatles |
The
then Director of Decca Records
turned down the Beatles. He said to
their promoter, 'We don't like your
boys' sound. Groups of guitarists on
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Dell |
Michael Dell |
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WalMart |
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AliBaba |
Jack Ma, one of the most
successful entrepreneurs in the
world, went through a lot of
rejection before he was the richest
person in
China. He was rejected from
Harvard 10 times. No banks would
work with him, so Ma decided to
start his own payment program called
Alipay that is used today by over 1
billion people. |
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Amazon |
"Every
well-intentioned, high-judgment
person we asked told us not to do
it," says
Jeff Bezoz, the founder of
Amazon.com. |
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We go to the source. Not the "experts", but the actual people who use
something similar to what we're hoping to create.
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Tom Kelley
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Big ideas are little ideas
that
no-one killed too soon. |
Seth Godin
Squidoo |
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