Life story of Thomas Alva Edison

In 1914, Thomas Edison, at age 67, lost his factory to fire. It had very little insurance. No longer a young man, Edison watched his lifetime effort go up in smoke and said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew." In spited of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What an attitude!

Story of Thomas Alva Edison

One day a partially deaf four-year-old child came home with a note in his pocket from his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the school." His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not too stupid to learn, I will teach him myself." And that Tommy grew-up to be the great Thomas Alva Edison. Edison had only three months of formal schooling.

Story on positive attitude

man was washing his new car when his neighbor asked his, "When did you get the car?" He replied "My brother gave it to me." The neighbor said, "I wish I had a car like that.". The man replied, "You should wish to have a brother like that." The neighbor's wife was listening to the conversation and she interrupted, "I wish I was a brother like that." Excellent attitude!

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie came to America from Scotland as a young boy. He started out by doing odd jobs and ended up as one of the largest steel manufacturers in United States. At one time, he had 43 millionaires working for him. A million dollars is a lot of money today, but in the 1920s it was worth much more.

Someone once asked Mr. Carnegie how he dealt with people. Andrew Carnegie replied, "Dealing with people is a lot like digging for gold: When you go digging for an ounce of gold you have to move tons of dirt. But when you go digging, you don't go looking for the dirt, you go looking for the gold."

Andrew Carnegie's reply has a very important message. Though sometimes it may not be apparent there is something positive in every person and every situation. We have to dig deep to look for the positive. This is the finest story on positive attitude.