“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe.” -Sumner Redstone. J.K Rowling's success of her book series Harry Potter was built on many failures and money losses. At one point (when she was beginning to think of the Harry Potter series) she was even in poverty. J.K Rowling is the award winning and bestselling author of the famous Harry Potter books and movies. She was born on July 31, 1965 in the Yate, Gloucestershire, England and grew up in a family of humble economic means. She wanted to be a writer since she was 5 years old, but it took her almost 30 years to write her first book, Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, due to many challenges she had to face in her life. J.K Rowling created the 15 billion dollar world famous Harry Potter franchise, and used persistence to overcome many personal and literary failures, and imagined a better world by …show more content…
“Failure is liberating: My greatest fears had been realized and I was still alive and I still had a daughter whom I adored. And I had an old typewriter and a big idea."” (J.K. Rowling). Success did not come easily to her and she went from one extreme to another in her life. She was a single mother with no money and living on welfare while going through a divorce. She claims that she was as poor as she could possibly be without being homeless. Even though J.K. Rowling experienced so many failures in her life, she found the determination and persistence to succeed. She never gave up because all she ever wanted to do was be a writer. Her persistence paid off and after twelve publishers rejected J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, it was finally accepted and she became the first person ever to make a billion dollars from