Colonel David Sanders was an American businessman, best known for

founding fast food chicken restaurant chain ‘’Kentucky Fried Chicken’’ (now known as
KFC).

At age 5, his father died. When he turned 16, he quit school. At the age of 17, he
already lost four jobs. A year later, he got married and became a railroad conductor. At 19,
he had a daughter. At age of 20, his wife left him and took their daughter with her. At age
22, he joined the army, applied to law school, became an insurance salesman but faced too
many rejections and failed; so he decided to be a cook and a dishwasher in a small cafe.
When he turned 65, he retired. He then received 105 dollars from the government. ‘’How
can an old man survive with 105 dollars?’’, he thought himself. Feeling like a total failure,
he decided to commit suicide.
He sat under a tree, writing his will and his suicide letter. Then all of sudden, he
thought of writing what he would have accomplished. He had a choice to start his life over
again. He realized that there was so much he hadn’t done yet. He could do something
nobody else can. He could even do it better than everyone else. That was cooking. Cooking
the best chicken anyone had ever tasted! He borrowed 87 dollars to buy a fryer and his
recipe’s ingredients. He cooked with his own recipe and tried to sell it door to door to his
neighbours in Kentucky, USA and also tried to license it to restaurants. Licensing his own
recipe to restaurants, he was rejected again for 1009 times! In the 1010th restaurant, he
finally had a chance to license his recipe. Thus, KFC was born. And at the age of 88, he
became a multi-billionaire.
 ‘’Don’t be afraid to dream. You have what it takes to be successful. Never
give up! Always believe in yourself no matter how many times you got
rejected. Make a difference in your life.’’

Born and raised in Austrian Empire, Nikola Tesla

received an advanced education in engineering and physics
in the 1870s and gained practical experience in the early
1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in
the new electric power industry.
He migrated to the United States in 1884, where he
would become a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short
time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City
before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners
to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories
and companies in New York to develop a range of
electrical and mechanical devices. His alternating current
(AC) induction motor and related polyphase AC patents,
licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a
considerable amount of money and became the
cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company
would eventually market.
Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range
of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early
X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless-controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited. Tesla
became well known as an inventor and would demonstrate his achievements to celebrities and
wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures.
Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide
wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in
New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of
wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his
unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and
power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.
After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and
1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series
of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943.
Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General
Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the tesla in
his honor. There has been resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.

‘’With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you
discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own
 powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring
influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and
you begin to look for dizzier heights.’’ –Nikola Tesla