The rich who showed their entrepreneurial talents as a child

Warren Buffett: 5-year-old starting business, 11-Year-old began to fry in 1930 Warren Buffett was born in the western United States, a town called Omaha. He was born in the most difficult years of his family. Father Howard. Buffett invested in stocks, the family life is very tight, in order to save a little coffee money, the mother did not even go to her church friends party. As a childhood, Buffett felt that numbers were very interesting things and showed extraordinary digital memory. He could spend the afternoon with his little buddy Russell to record the car license number on the street. At night, they began to repeat the game they thought was interesting: Russell read a large number of city names in a big book, and Buffett quickly reported the city's population. One of Buffett's friends recalls that at the age of 5, Buffett placed a stall in the hallway outside his home to sell gum to past people. Later, instead, he sold lemon juice in downtown. Steel King: The name of the transfer rabbit to raise Rabbit steel King Andrew. Carnegie was very young and showed a flair for business. Once, his mother Rabbit gave birth to a litter of rabbits, he did not have enough food to feed the small rabbits, and no money to buy. Carnegie had a heart, he told the neighbors children, if anyone can get the golden flower, plantain grass feeding his rabbit, in the future he will use whose name to call these small rabbits in return. This plan really produced miraculous, the whole summer vacation, the children are willing to help him collect Kim Huana and plantain grass. In his early years, Carnegie had a job of delivering telegrams, with only five cents a day's wages. He was eager to be an operator at the time, so he taught himself telegrams at night and ran to the company early every morning to find a machine to practice. One morning, the company suddenly received a telegram from Philadelphia. The Telegraph was unusually urgent, but at that time the operator had not been to work, so Carnegie took it down and hastened to send it to the addressee's hands. After that, he was promoted to an operator and his salary increased by one fold. A chance to get Carnegie on the road to riches. On one occasion, on his way to a place by train, an inventor sat by his side and showed him the new model of sleeping car he had invented. Kanekit's alertness and foresight led him to see the great future of the invention. So he borrowed money to buy the shares of the company that owned the invention. When Carnegie was 25 years old, his annual dividend from the investment amounted to 5000 dollars. Virgin Group founder: from 2 chocolate biscuits to earn the British Virgin Group-a 350 branch of the business empire, involving aviation, telecommunications, trains, credit cards and other fields, its founder and CEO Richard. Branson, the whole family is full of adventure, especially Branson's mother, often deliberately to create challenges for their children. Branson's parents grew up focusing on nurturing their children's independence. One day when Branson was 4 years old, his mother drove him home, a few kilometres away from home, suddenly stopped and asked little Branson to walk home. Facing the Endlessfield, Little Branson was lost. Branson grew up with a business mind. Once, the parents gave him a toy electric small train, he himself modified small train, improve speed, and set a 2 chocolate biscuits per person as the price of tickets, please watch the children. As a result, in a row for half a month, Branson did not worry about no biscuits to eat. At the age of 17, Branson finally left school and sponsored a "student" magazine in a narrow basement with 4 pounds from his mother. Branson is responsible for the commercial operation of the magazine. When partners are still passionate about politics, he's thinking about how to make the most of the student brand. When he was advertising, he pretended to Coca-Cola that Pepsi had booked a magazine's advertising space; he had a busy disguise in front of a visiting journalist; he found John, a member of the Beatles. Lennon and other celebrities to do interviews, but also sent reporters to the world's hot spots to interview, their own people and brands, by others to pay-all this, so that the "student" circulation has soared to 200,000. Bill Gates: Childhood was a slovenly childhood--even as an adult--bill was slovenly. It is said that in order to change the habit, Mary made a week dress plan for him. Monday school he wore blue outfit, Tuesday Green, Wednesday Brown, Thursday Black, and so on. The weekend meal time also arranges meticulously. Everything needs to be organized. Bill。 Gates hates wasting time, whether at work or at leisure. The discussion at the table at Bill's house is always lively and instructive. It's a very informative learning environment, "Bill recalls. Bill's contemporaries, even at that age, could see that he was different. Every year, he and his friends are going to summer camp. Bill is particularly fond of swimming. One of his friends at the camp recalls, "he will never be a man of little or no consequence." We all know that bill is smarter than us. Even earlier, when he was 9 or 10 years old, he talked like an adult. Sometimes we feel inscrutable. Bilby classmates are also better at math and nature. He needs a school that is challenging him. Then the parents decided to send him to the lakeside secondary School-a special admission to the gifted boys schools. It is one of the most restrictive schools in Seattle, known for its rigorous curriculum requirements and a "smart" place for even dumb kids. Li Ka-shing: Bitter Childhood in the June 1939, Japanese imperialism began to trample on this quiet land. All day and night, Japan's aircraft to the Chaozhou area bombing, Ning and the beautiful Chaozhou city became a ruins. Lee's family risked being killed at any time, hiding from the stray bullets, climbed a blockade, walk more than 10 days, all the way camped, through hardships, traveled to Hong Kong. The family resides in Uncle Zhung's home. It's a double whammy, when Li Ka-shing's father Li suffering from lung disease due to overwork. As the eldest son of Li Ka-shing while taking care of his father, while struggling to brush up his lessons. He knew that his father was to be sick, and therefore he wished through his own efforts toLearn to achieve good results, so that sick father can get a spiritual comfort. In order to cure his father, Li Ka-shing lived a very poor life. Two meals of gruel, combined with the mother's collection of vegetable leaves, is a day of "gourmet". The family's only hope is in Li Ka-shing's father, hoping that he will be able to raise the disease as soon as possible, so that the whole family can overcome this difficulty. Father did not survive the winter, or die. As the eldest son, Li Ka-shing had to eyes with tears, reluctantly ended his study out to work to maintain family life. After the death of his father, Li Ka-shing, 14, was forced to leave his beloved school with his very young shoulders, and resolutely provoked the burden of supporting a loving mother and raising her sister-in-law. Li Ka-shing first in Uncle Zhung of the Zhongnan Watch company when the small tea sweeping apprentice. When Li Ka-shing came here, the first thing he learned was to play it by ear. He is always one to arrive at the company and the last to leave the company every day. After 3 years of hard work, the 14-year-old has grown into a lean, sturdy, heroic lad. Li Ka-shing, a 17-year-old salesman at a hardware factory and plastic belt manufacturing Company, began a marketing career that Hong Kong people call "street Boy". Fok Ying-tung: A bitter childhood, Fanyu County, Guangdong Province, was born in Hong Kong on May 10, 1923. Grandfather Hodacha, had a sailing boat, between the provincial and Hong Kong and Macao, engaged in freight business. But when the Fok Ying-tung came to this world, the family has been very difficult, all rely on his father charter lighterage goods to maintain life, income is not much, life is hard, their family is poor even shoes can not wear, no matter the cold winter heat, are barefoot walking. Once lunar years, his father first wear a pair of new shoes on the street, in small stalls to take off the shoes, squatting on the stool to eat powder, eat the feet and then walk. Back to the ship, only to find that they did not wear shoes back, because there is no habit of wearing shoes. There was no weather forecast and there was no guarantee of life on the water. The two brothers at Fok Ying-Tung died in a typhoon, a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old. His mother was rescued by his uncle, but soon his uncle was drowned in the storm. At the age of 7, the father died of illness and was only more than 40 years old. Because the disease time is very long, every day with herbal medicine treatment, the original is a very limited amount of money spent, died only hastily buried in the Qingyidao. After the death of his father, the Henry Fok family life became more difficult. At that time, he had a 9-year-old sister, a 5-year-old sister, the burden of life all fell on his mother. Mother is a tenacious, hard-working, hard-working people, in that troubled days, she was not overwhelmed by the weight of life, but straight spine, hard work, the husband left the Lighterage business continue to operate. The Lighterage business is to engage with cargo ships off the coast, transporting the goods to the shore on a small sampan. The main cargo to be transported at that time was coal. 's himself without a barge, from the ship's owner to the next business, and then divided to the Sampan lighterage, from which to earn a meagerCommission. Because the Henry Fok Ying-tung was very popular when his father was alive, and her mother was open-minded and decent, most of the shippers and Sampan were sympathetic to the widows, and the days were still barely sustainable. Henry Fok Ying-tung's mother, although she is illiterate, but hope that their children know the book ink. Around the 6-year-old Fok Ying-tung, it was carried by others to apprentice enlightenment. Then in the sailing trade righteousness study, it is free, his family lives in the boat, wandering everywhere, classes are not normal, sometimes after school even the boat is not easy to find. To the third shift, transfer to Dumme Primary school. This primary school is charged, and there is a free class, but only 30 people are enrolled. Students to make an article for the examination, Henry Fok Ying-tung or admitted, and in the name of the admission, the first is he. Later, he turned to the Royal College. The academic system of the college is reversed from the eighth class, equivalent to the first grade of junior high school. At that time, the eighth class of the college, a total of three classes, 30 people per class, but most of the teachers, parents and all kinds of relations introduced into the school, the real pass the exam admitted less than 10 people. When the examination also asked to make an article, Henry Fok Ying-tung was also the first to be admitted. MA: Simple child Ma Yun is a silly child since childhood. Childhood love fights, played countless times the shelf "not once for themselves, all for friends." "Loyalty, the most sense of loyalty." He had 13 stitches and was punished. Forced to transfer to Hangzhou eight. Because the family background is not good, the home pressure is big, father temper is hot. Ma Yun grew up under his father's fists, but he was especially fond of making friends. He said: "I am a fool if wisdom, in fact, very stupid, brain so small, only one to think of the problem, you even mention three questions, I can not digest." "From an early age, Ma Yun's homework is not good, math test 1 points." Only English is particularly good, the reason is: "My father scolded me, I will use English retaliate, he did not understand, quite enjoyable, to learn, the more the more exciting." "From the age of 13, Ma Yun rode a bicycle with foreigners full of Hangzhou run." From small to large, Ma Yun not only did not go to a first-class university, and even primary and secondary schools are three or four flow. Junior high School exam two times. Math 31 points. The college Entrance Examination Mathematics 21 points. The failure of the college entrance examination, weak Ma Yun to do the work of the tricycle. Until one day at the Jinhua railway station to pick up-book, Lu Yao's "Life", this book changed the silly child: "I want to go to college." "1984 Ma Yun several hard test into the foreign language department of Hangzhou Normal University-is a specialist score, from the undergraduate 5 points, but the undergraduate did not recruit Manchu, Ma Yun Lucky on the ground of the undergraduate." Shi Yuzhu: Do not climb too alternative from junior high school start, to 18 years old leave hometown, Shi Yuzhu not for what, for a few good schoolmates all go to climb a mountain, everybody climbs a mountain, "I do not go mountain climbing, feel like too alternative, to cultivate the habit of mountain climbing." 1962, Shi Yuzhu was born in northern Anhui Huaiyuan County City. "Father is Huaiyuan Public security Bureau, my mother is a factory worker." "Before the first few, Shi Yuzhu bad results, fun, love to read comic books, often by mother training." 1977 to resume the college entrance examination, let Shi Yuzhu began to study seriously, because "learning canCollege entrance Examination. "Before graduating from high school, it was ' decentralized '. Before the age of 18, Shi Yuzhu with his father two times to see the prosperity of big Shanghai. The basic impression is "too big." "The deepest impression is the 24-storey International Hotel on Nanjing Road." "and Waitan." "Waitan's building is not the same as Huaiyuan's." Very flavor. At the moment, despite walking on the road in Nanjing, Shi Yuzhu still think he is far away from big Shanghai. 1980, Shi Yuzhu to the county Total score First, Mathematics 119 (Difference 1 points) of the score entered Zhejiang University Mathematics department. But in Zhejiang University mathematics department just after one semester, Shi Yuzhu gave up to become Chen ideal. "From the library to the number theory, read it, I learned that mathematics is so difficult." "And around the students than clever, also let Shi Yuzhu pressure is very big." In particular, the south of the Yangtze River, the results are not want to go to Tsinghua, Beida, have gone to Zhejiang University, so, we that the class of intelligent too much, study good too much. "Know 1+1 impossible Breakthrough, Shi Yuzhu's mathematical ideal shattered." "I want to do something." "But very early," I realized that I couldn't do it. This is the main reason for my disillusionment. "After the disillusionment of the Shi Yuzhu began to run, cultivate a variety of hobbies." Every day he ran from Zhejiang to the temple, 18, and then ran back, insisted for four years. Ding Lei: The tenth phenomenon we found the footprints of Ding lei in Fenghua Middle School of Zhejiang province. September 1986, Ding Lei in the study, become a Freshman (2) Class of 56 students in a son. Jianghong and he are classmates. In Jianghong Teacher's memory, more than 10 years ago, Ding Lei's academic average, in the class ranked only 四、五十位, with the current "richest man" name is very asymmetric. "The good news is that every time he has an exam, he's always making progress." But it's best to be in the tenth to 20th place, never to kill the top 10, let alone in grade. "3 years after the college entrance examination, Ding lei hand over the results of the same unprepossessing: he has a high key score of 1 points of the success of the admission of Chengdu University of ... However, this is Ding Lei's favorite university, he was very early in the west of the possession of a large number of electronic books in the higher institutions of education fascinated. "The education sector is now keen to explore the ' tenth phenomenon ', saying that in one class, the number of grades in the tenth place is expected to be one of the best in the future." I think now, Ding lei this case also conforms to the ' tenth place phenomenon '. The Jianghong teacher so appraises his old schoolmate.