Obama speech

On 9/8/09 President Obama talked with new ninth graders about school.  He talked about how no matter what you have going on in or out of school, it is not an excuse to have a bad attitude, or talk back to your teacher.  He stated that many successful people did not start out as successful as they are. President Obama said "some of the most successful people in the world, are the ones who had the most failures "Michael Jordan for one, was cut from his high school basketball team and missed thousands of shots and lost hundreds of games in his career but he stated "i have failed over and over again in my life. and thats why i succeed." J.K. Rowling's first harry potter failed 12 times before being published and now is a huge hit series of books.  No wealth or riches came without and education.