1955, Bill Gates was born in Seattle, a beautiful city in the western United States. At the age of 1 1, Gates entered the most famous private middle school in Seattle. At this time, it is the time when computers rise quietly. Hubin Middle School spent a lot of money to buy a computer for students to understand and learn. The studious Gates soon fell in love with computers.

1973, Gates was admitted to Harvard. Harvard is a world-famous university, where outstanding students from all over the United States and around the world gather.

From 65438 to 0974, the news that the first personal computer came out inspired all the passions of Gates. He decided to drop out of Harvard and join the computer wave. Because this is a once-in-a-century opportunity.

1975, Gates and his good friend Paul finally set up their own company. They named their company Microsoft. At this time, although Microsoft has not yet formed a big climate, Gates and his friends have become famous in the computer industry.

198 1 year, IBM, the largest computer company at that time, officially exhibited its new personal computer, which caused a sensation. What is more striking is that it is Microsoft under the leadership of young Gates who provides language programs for IBM.

Through unremitting efforts, Microsoft won the final victory. Half a year after the advent of IBM personal computer, Microsoft officially became the leader of personal computer software. Gates, who is only 26 years old, also became famous.

Today, Gates has reached the peak of the computer software world and become the idol of a new generation of American youth.

2. Stallone's story

Stallone began his career as an actor. He went to Hollywood, looking for stars, directors, producers and anyone who might make him an actor, pleading, "Give me a chance and I will do it well!" " "

Unfortunately, he was rejected again and again, but he was not discouraged. After every failure, he seriously reflected and then set off again to find new opportunities ... In order to make a living, he worked in Hollywood, looking for opportunities and doing some clumsy odd jobs. In this way, two years passed quickly, and Stallone himself didn't know how many times he was rejected, but he still didn't know where his way out was.

Faced with such a heavy blow, Stallone kept asking himself: Is there really no hope? Can the sons of gamblers and alcoholics only be gamblers and alcoholics? No, I have to keep trying! He thought of writing a play. He thought he was no longer a layman when he first came to Hollywood. More than two years have passed, and every rejection is an opportunity to learn and make progress.

So he boldly began to write plays. A year later, he visited the director with his first play. "How about this script? Let me be a star! " However, even if the script can, no director is willing to let such an unknown person play the leading role, and Stallone faces the fate of being rejected again.

However, "value for money". After Stallone was rejected again and again, a director who rejected him more than 20 times said to him, "I don't know if you can play it well, but your spirit touched me and I can give you a chance." I want to change your script into a TV play.

However, just shoot an episode first, let you be the protagonist and see the effect; If the effect is not good, you should give up the idea of becoming an actor. "For this moment, Stallone has been preparing for more than three years. The opportunity is so precious, how can he not go all out? More than three years of pleading, more than three years of suffering and more than three years of persistence made him integrate his life into the first role.

After many hardships and setbacks, Lady Luck finally smiled at Stallone, and the ratings of his TV series "Loki" soared, and he quickly became famous.

3. Seize the opportunity with wisdom.

1992, the 25th Olympic Games was held in Barcelona, Spain. Before the competition, the owner of an electrical appliance store in this city declared to Barcelona citizens: "If the total number of gold medals won by Spanish athletes in this Olympic Games exceeds 10, then customers can get a full refund of all electrical appliances purchased in this store from June 3 to July 24."

The news caused a sensation in Barcelona. People flocked there to buy electrical appliances, and the sales of shops soared. Especially on July 4th, Spanish athletes won 10 gold and 1 silver. Therefore, people are snapping up electrical appliances harder than before.

It is estimated that the refund of electrical stores will reach $6,543,800+0,000. It seems that the boss is definitely going bankrupt! But the boss said calmly: "The refund will be cashed from September."

"Why is this? Can he afford it? " People are inevitably suspicious.

It turns out that the boss has already arranged it. Before advertising, he went to the insurance company to take out special insurance. The insurance company thought it was impossible to surpass the 10 gold medal and accepted the insurance.

This is an insurance policy for drought and flood, which only earns money and does not lose money. If the total number of gold medals won by Spanish athletes does not exceed 10, then the electrical appliance store obviously made a profit, and the insurance company does not need compensation. On the other hand, if the total number of gold medals exceeds 10, the insurance company will compensate the electronics store for all the money it wants to return, which has nothing to do with the electronics store, so the electronics store will undoubtedly make a lot of money.

Napoleon seized this opportunity.

1793, he was reported to the front to take part in the battle against Toulon. Just as the front-line commander of the revolutionary army was puzzled by Toulon's solid defense, Napoleon immediately seized this opportunity and put forward a new battle plan directly to the special correspondent Saliceti.

When reporting that the members had no good plan, Napoleon's plan was very innovative. He immediately appointed Napoleon as the deputy commander of the siege artillery and was promoted to major. Napoleon seized this opportunity, carefully planned and fought bravely at the front, fully demonstrated his courage and intelligence, and finally conquered Toulon. Because of this, he won the meritorious military service and was promoted to major general brigade commander.

In the end, he became famous in one fell swoop, which laid the foundation for him to become all-powerful and reach the peak of power.

At the end of Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng was born in a poor peasant family, but he had no ambition. In 2 10 BC, Qin Shihuang died of illness. Eunuch Zhao Gao forged the testament of Qin Shihuang and made Qin Shihuang's youngest son Hu Hai a puppet emperor. Zhao Gao usurped power and oppressed and exploited the people even more cruelly.

The Qin Dynasty recruited poor peasants to perform military service in the border areas on a large scale, built palaces, carried out land and water transportation and engaged in all kinds of hard labor, which caused great disasters to the people. In July 209 BC, 900 poor farmers, including Chen Sheng and Guangwu, were sent to defend Yuyang. Because of the heavy rain on the road, the road was washed away and they couldn't arrive on time. According to the law of the Qin Dynasty, they were killed by mistake.

Chen Sheng saw his own situation and the national people's hatred of the Qin Dynasty, and decided to seize this opportunity to mobilize the border guards to kill the Qin Jun officers who escorted them. Exposing the pole as a flag and using sticks and hoes as weapons, they led this 900-person peasant armed against Qin. Immediately after the uprising, it won the support of the broad masses of the people.

Farmers brought their own dry food and joined the rebels one after another. The insurgents expanded rapidly, attacking the city and plundering the land. Finally overthrew the rule of the Qin dynasty.