I am not joking. A failure sometimes creates a burning desire to succeed and that inspiration takes us to the top of the world.Those great people who learn lessons from failures are living legends and set remarkable example for young people to the present generations who get despaired for small instances and choose a wrong path of life. Failures normally lead us to desperation and suicidal tendency if not checked in time. Only few will be inspired in the positive direction and become global icons. One such example Walt Disney, the founder of Walt Disney Company and his studios are world famous Walt Disney studios in Hollywood, America.
Walt Disney started of as a news
reporter and was fired to streets by his editor for lack of imagination and
good ideas. His subsequent failures in business landed him in bankruptcy and
failure. The most admired Mickey Mouse cartoon was first rejected by MGM in
1927 and the reason quoted is that ‘a giant mouse on the screen would terrify
women’ Ref: (1)
Walt Disney is one among the five
children to his Irish-Canadian and German-American parents. He was born on December 5, 1901. He was very unhappy
at home in the early days because of his father’s selfish attitude. Later on
when he became the proud owner of Disney
Land he commented that Disneyland
was his desire to see that parents and children visit together for
entertainment and he maintained the same support to the parents till his death.
He created a cartoon character
Mickey Mouse when his artists left him abandoned and turned to the side of the
distributor including his chief animator artist Ub Iwerks.
One of his publicity stunts for
the premiere of Pinocchio back fired. For
this premiere show he chooses 11 midgets to act as little puppets. He supplied
them food and wine for the whole day and asked them to stay at the top of the Radio
City Music Hall
in New York. He wanted to attract
the children in audience with a welcome 'Hello' from these midgets The midgets
were drunk by afternoon and created havoc by becoming nude and taking obscene
words to the crowd below and even the police were embarrassed with this ugly
situation and took heavy time to bring them down and take them away from the
scene.
He was cheated by his long-time
producer Mintz for a film Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. This film was created by
Walt when he was 26 yeas. In an year from the time the picture was regarded the
top and his cartoons caught on name and fame, Walt came from California to New York for renewal of the
film with his producer Mintz, to negotiate both the increase the share from
20%, was taken aback by the adverse reply of his producer. Mintz denied a
larger cut and adding fury to the fire he said that he had already negotiated
employment agreements with all of Walt's animation crew, meaning that Charles
no longer needed Walt. He'd continue the Oswald series without him. Chrles
Mintz might have thought that Walt will settle for 20% cut but surprisingly
Walt left all rights of his baby Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to Mintz. By then Walt
is known for his success in Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. But for Walt this failure
would have broken the nerves of other people to a point of no return or devised
a plot to take revenge. By keeping calm Walt Disney created the most acclaimed
cartoon movie 'Mikey Mouse'.
Walt Disney did not get dejected from failures. Instead his
confidence grew up and he started learning from all the setbacks a new lesson.
He prepared himself for bigger risks and in all those critical situations used
his wisdom and knowledge and rose to a star position in the Hollywood
kingdom. He is a true inspiration to everyone by all standards
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