In the mid 1970s, only a couple of years after FedEx was shaped, the juvenile organization was at that point in desperate straits, losing up to a million dollars per month, At one point, it seemed as though they wouldn't have the capacity to meet their budgetary duties. While sitting tight for a flight, Fred Smith, the author of the organization, hastily bounced on a plane to Las Vegas, where he won $27,000 playing Blackjack.

Lamborghini was initially a tractor maker. The proprietor, Ferruccio Lamborghini, had an enthusiasm for extravagance vehicles, particularly Ferraris. While completing a standard check, Lamborghini found that the grip in his Ferrari was broken and he found that the auto utilized an indistinguishable grasp from his tractors. When he approached Enzo Ferrari for a superior substitution, Ferrari expelled him saying he was a tractor creator and did not know anything about race autos. I figure we as a whole know how that turned out.

BMW initially began off as an airplane producing organization. After Germany's thrashing in WWI, all plane assembling organizations needed to stop generation, one of the numerous terms of the Versailles Armistice Treaty. With the organization confronting chapter 11, BMW moved to cruiser creation, soon took after by the fabricate of autos in 1928. Their present logo is a tribute to their flight legacy.