Something more to consider

* In 1954, Jimmy Denny, the manager of th Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after one performance. He told Presley..."you ain't goin nowhere...son. You ought to go back to drivin a truck."

* When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, That is an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"

* Thomas Edison was probably the greatest inventor in American history. When he first attend school in Port Huron, Michigan, his teachers complained that he was "to slow" and hard to handle. As a result, his mother decided to take him out of school and teach him at home. The young Edison was fascinated by science. At the age of ten he had already set up his first chemistry laboratory. Edison"s inexaustable energy and genius ( which he reportedly defined as ("1 percent inspirition and 99 percent perspiration') eventionaly produced omre than 1300 inventions in his life time.