"I was thrown out of my own company... and that was the best thing that could have happened to me."

At the beginning of the 20th century, my life was a business disaster. My first business went bankrupt. I was completely ruined. People told me I wasn't cut out for business, that I should look for a stable job. But inside me, I knew something great could come out... if I didn't give up. So, along with my brother, I founded Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928, which would later become Motorola. And we started from a small workshop, with little more than hope.

What was our first product? A battery eliminator for radios... and it failed. But we didn't stop. A year later, we created a car radio, something no one had ever seen. What was the problem? No one trusted radios in cars! But little by little, we managed to get taxi drivers and truckers to use them. Thus, the name Motorola was born: "motor" for the cars, and "ola" for the sound.

During World War II, our radios helped soldiers communicate on the battlefield. And years later, we created the world's first portable cellphone. And do you know the craziest part? All of that came from the mind of a man who was ousted from his first company. Every fall was a lesson... and every lesson, a piece of what is now history.

"It doesn't matter how many times they tell you that you can't... what matters is how many times you are willing to start over."

Paul Galvin