People Who Found Success Despite Failures

PEOPLE WHO FOUND SUCCESS DESPITE - FAILURES * 12 TIMES * 302 TIMES + J.K Rowling was famously rejected by a mighty 12 publishers before Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone was accepted. Legend has it Walt Disney was turned down 302 times before he got financing for creating Disneyland. + 104 TIMES + SOLD 1 PAINTING Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was four and didn't read till seven. He went on to Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime--to a friend. Despite that, he kept painting and finished over 800 pieces. His most expensive painting today is valued at $142.7 million. win a Nobel Prize and became the face of modern physics. * 27 TIMES + 10000 WAYS + Dr. Seuss's first book To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was rejected by 27 different publishers. Thomas Edison: "If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."