Look at the childhood lives of the rich

Look at the childhood lives of the rich. Each rich man has a different growth experience. Buffett started running a street vendor at the age of 5, Ding Lei’s academic performance has always been around 10th in the class, and Jack Ma changed his life because of a book. Life. 1. Ding Lei: The Tenth Phenomenon We found Ding Lei’s footprints in Fenghua Middle School in Zhejiang Province. In September 1986, Ding Lei was admitted to Fengzhong Middle School and became one of the 56 classmates in Class 2 of Senior High School at that time. Jiang Hong was his classmate. In Teacher Jiang Hong's memory, Ding Lei's academic performance more than 10 years ago was mediocre. When he entered school, he was only ranked 40 or 50 in the class, which was very inconsistent with his current title of "richest man". "The good news is that every time he takes an exam, his ranking always improves. But at best he is only between tenth and twentieth. He has never been among the top ten in the class, let alone ranked within the grade." In the national examination three years later, Ding Lei's results were equally unspectacular: he was lucky enough to be admitted to Chengdu University of Electronic Science and Technology with a score 1 point higher than the key score line. However, this is Ding Lei's favorite university. He has long been fascinated by this higher education institution in the west, which has a large number of electronic books. "The education community is now keen to discuss the 'Tenth Place Phenomenon', which means that in a class, those who are ranked around tenth in academic performance are expected to become the most outstanding ones in the future. I think about it now, Ding Lei This case is also consistent with the 'tenth place phenomenon'," Teacher Jiang Hong said of his old classmate. 2. Jack Ma: A book changes life. Jack Ma has been a silly child since he was a child. When I was a child, I loved to fight, and I fought countless times, never for myself but only for my friends. He received 13 stitches and was punished, and was forced to transfer to Hangzhou No. 8 Middle School. Due to a poor family background, family pressure was high, and his father had a hot temper. Ma Yun grew up under the influence of his father. He couldn't stay at home but loved making friends. He said: "I am as stupid as I am wise. In fact, I am very stupid. My brain is so small that I can only think about questions one by one. If you ask three questions in a row, I can't digest it." Since childhood, Ma Yun has not been good at homework and has scored 1 point in mathematics. . Only English is particularly good, and the reason is: "My father scolded me, and I spoke back in English. He couldn't understand, but it was fun, so he learned it. The more he learned, the more enthusiastic he became." Since the age of 13, Ma Yun has been riding a bicycle to teach students Traveling all over Hangzhou with foreigners. Growing up, Jack Ma not only did not go to a first-class university, but even primary and secondary schools were third- or fourth-rate. After taking the junior high school entrance examination and the high school entrance examination twice, he scored 31 points in mathematics and 21 points in the national examination mathematics. However, he failed the national examination. The weak Ma Yun started to work as a tricycle. Until one day I picked up a book at Jinhua Railway Station, "Life" by Lu Yao. This book changed this silly boy: "I want to go to college." In 1984, after many hard work, Ma Yun was admitted to the Foreign Languages ??Department of Hangzhou Normal University - —It’s a score for a junior college, which is 5 points away from an undergraduate degree. However, the undergraduate program didn’t fully recruit students, so Jack Ma was lucky enough to get into the undergraduate program. 3. Shi Yuzhu: He once dreamed of becoming Chen Jingrun. From junior high school until he left his hometown at the age of 18, Shi Yuzhu went mountain climbing for a few of his close classmates. Get into the habit of climbing mountains. Shi Yuzhu was born in Huaiyuan County in northern Anhui in 1962. "My father is from the Huaiyuan Public Security Bureau, and my mother is a factory worker." Before the second grade of junior high school, Shi Yuzhu had poor grades. He was playful and loved reading novels, and was often scolded by his mother. The national examination was resumed in 1977, allowing Shi Yuzhu to start studying seriously. Previously, he was "devolved" after graduating from high school. Before the age of 18, Shi Yuzhu experienced the prosperity of Greater Shanghai twice with his father, and his basic impression was that it was "too big." The deepest impression is the 24-story International Hotel on Nanjing Road and the Bund. The buildings on the Bund are different from the buildings in Huaiyuan, very western style. At this moment, even though he was walking on Nanjing Road, Shi Yuzhu still felt that he was far away from Shanghai. In 1980, Shi Yuzhu was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of Zhejiang University with the first overall score in the county and a score of 119 in mathematics (1 point shy of a perfect score). But just after one semester in the Mathematics Department of Zhejiang University, Shi Yuzhu gave up his ideal of becoming Chen Jingrun. "I borrowed "Number Theory" from the library, and after reading it, I realized how difficult mathematics is." Being smarter than his classmates also put a lot of pressure on Shi Yuzhu. "Especially from the south of the Yangtze River, those with good grades don't want to go to Tsinghua University or Peking University, but go to Zhejiang University. Therefore, there are too many smart people in our class and too many good students." Knowing that 1+1 is impossible After the breakthrough, Shi Yuzhu's mathematical ideals were shattered. I really wanted to do something, but very early on I realized that I couldn't do it, which was the main reason for my disillusionment. After his dreams were shattered, Shi Yuzhu started running and developing various hobbies. He ran from Zhejiang University to Lingyin Temple every day, 18 miles, and then ran back again for four years. 4. Buffett: Setting up a stall to make money at the age of 5 Warren Buffett was born in 1930 in a small town called Omaha in the western United States. When he was born, it was the most difficult years for the family. His father, Howard Buffett, lost all his money investing in stocks, and the family's life was very tight. In order to save a little money for coffee, my mother would not even attend her church friends' gatherings. Buffett has felt that numbers are very interesting since he was a child, and has shown extraordinary numerical memory ability. He could spend an entire afternoon recording the license plate numbers of cars coming and going on the streets with his friend Russell. In the evening, they began to repeat what they thought was a fun game: Russell read out a lot of city names from a big book, and Buffett quickly reported the population of each city one by one. A friend of Buffett recalled that when he was 5 years old, Buffett set up a stall in the aisle outside his home and sold chewing gum to people passing by. Later, he switched to selling lemon juice in the bustling urban area.

5. Richard Branson: Win chocolate since childhood Virgin Group - a business empire with 350 branches, involving aviation, telecommunications, trains, credit cards and other fields, its founder and CEO Richard Branson Branson's whole family is full of adventurous spirit, especially Branson's mother, who often deliberately creates challenges for her children. Branson's parents have focused on cultivating their children's independent spirit since childhood. One day when Branson was 4 years old, his mother drove him home. A few kilometers away from home, she suddenly stopped the car and asked Branson to walk home by himself. Facing the endless fields, little Branson was lost. Branson has had business acumen since he was a child. Once, his parents gave him a toy electric train. He modified the train himself to increase the speed, and set a ticket price of 2 chocolate biscuits per person for the children to watch. As a result, Branson didn't have to worry about not having any cookies for half a month. At the age of 17, Branson finally left school and founded the "Student" magazine in a narrow basement with a 4-pound sponsorship from his mother. Branson is responsible for the magazine's business operations. While his partners were still keen on politics, he was thinking about how to make full use of the student brand to diversify business. (Famous quote sun) When advertising, he falsely claimed to Coca-Cola that Pepsi-Cola had reserved advertising space in the magazine; he pretended to be busy in front of visiting reporters; he invited celebrities such as John Lennon, a member of the Beatles, to conduct exclusive interviews, and also sent Reporters traveled to hotspots around the world to conduct interviews, created their own people and brands, and had others pay for them - all of which allowed the circulation of "Student" to surge to 200,000 copies. 6. Carnegie: The first salary was 5 cents a day. Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie showed business talent at an early age. Once, his female rabbit gave birth to a litter of baby rabbits. He did not have enough food to feed the baby rabbits, and he had no money to buy them. Carnegie came up with a plan. He told the children in the neighborhood that if anyone could get broccoli and plantains to feed his little rabbits, he would call the little rabbits after that person's name in return. This strategy worked wonders. Throughout the summer vacation, the children willingly helped him collect broccoli and plantains. In his early years, Carnegie had a job delivering telegrams, and his daily salary was only 5 cents. At that time, he aspired to become an operator, so he taught himself telegraphy at night and went to the company early every morning to find a machine to practice. One morning, the company suddenly received a telegram from Philadelphia. The telegram was extremely urgent, but the operators were not at work at the time, so Carnegie collected it on his behalf and quickly delivered it to the recipient. After that, he was promoted to operator and his salary was doubled. An accidental opportunity put Carnegie on the road to wealth. Once, when he was taking a train to a certain place, an inventor sat next to him and showed him a model of a new sleeping car he had invented. Carnegie's unique alertness and foresight enabled him to see the great future of this invention. So he borrowed money to buy stock in the company that owned the invention. When Carnegie was 25 years old, his annual dividends from this investment amounted to $5,000. 7. Bill Gates: A slovenly childhood. During his childhood, even as an adult, Bill was slovenly. It is said that in order to change this habit, Mary made a dressing plan for him for the week. He wears blue for school on Monday, green on Tuesday, brown on Wednesday, black on Thursday, and so on. Weekend meal times are also arranged in detail, and everything has to be organized. Discussions around the dinner table at Bill's home were always lively and educational. "It was a rich learning environment," Bill recalled. Bill's contemporaries, even at that age, could tell he was different. Every year, he and his friends go to summer camp. Bill was particularly fond of swimming and other sports. One of his friends at summer camp recalled, "He was never a nobody or an insignificant person. We all knew that Bill was smarter than us, even earlier, when he was nine or nine. At ten years old, he spoke like an adult. His words sometimes seemed incomprehensible to us. Bill was also better than his classmates in mathematics and science. He needed to go to a school that was full of challenges for him, and then his parents decided to send him. Go to Lakeside Middle School, a school that specializes in recruiting extraordinary boys. This is one of the most restrictive schools in Seattle. It is known for its strict curriculum requirements and is a place where "even dumb children are smart." 8. Huo Yingdong: Childhood Wear. Huo Yingdong, who cannot afford shoes, was originally from Panyu County, Guangdong Province. He was born in a floating family in Hong Kong on May 10, 1923. His grandfather Huo Dachao once owned a sailboat and traveled between the province, Hong Kong and Macao, and was engaged in the freight business. But when Huo Yingdong came to this world. When I went to school, my family was already in a very difficult situation. They relied on my father to rent boats to transport goods. Their income was not much and their life was difficult. The family was so poor that they couldn't even wear shoes. No matter how cold the winter or the heat, they walked barefoot. In the old calendar year, his father wore a pair of new shoes on the street for the first time. He took off his shoes at a small stall, squatted on a stool to eat rice noodles, and walked away after finishing his meal, only to find that he had not put on his shoes. When I came back, I never had the habit of wearing shoes. There was no weather forecast at that time, and there was no guarantee for life on the water. Huo Yingdong’s two brothers died in a shipwreck in a typhoon. His mother was killed by her uncle when she was 5 years old and 7 years old. He was rescued, but soon his uncle also capsized and drowned in the storm. About when Huo Yingdong was 7 years old, his father fell ill and died unfortunately, and he was only in his 40s.

Because I had been sick for a long time, I used Chinese herbal medicine to treat me every day, and I spent all my limited money. After my death, I was buried hastily on Tsing Yi Island. After his father passed away, life for Huo Yingdong's family became even more difficult. At that time, he had a 9-year-old sister and a 5-year-old sister. The burden of life fell entirely on his mother. My mother is a tenacious, hard-working and diligent person. During those troubled days, she did not give in to the pressure of life. Instead, she straightened her back and worked hard to continue the barge business left by her husband. Go down. This lightering business involves contacting freighters in the open sea and transporting goods to the shore in small sampans on their behalf. The main cargo transported at that time was coal. The Huo family did not have barges of their own, so they took over the business from ship cargo owners and then distributed it to sampans for barge transportation, earning a small commission from it. Because Huo Yingdong's father was very popular when he was alive and his mother was open-minded and decent, most cargo owners and sampan passengers sympathized with the orphaned and widowed family, and they could barely survive. Although Huo Yingdong's mother was illiterate herself, she hoped that her children would be knowledgeable in writing. When Huo Yingdong was about 6 years old, he was carried by others to become an apprentice. Then he enrolled in a sailing school, which was free. His family lived on a boat and wandered around. Classes were very irregular, and sometimes it was hard to even find the boat after school. In the third class, he transferred to Dunmei Primary School. This elementary school charges fees, but there is a free class, but it only enrolls 30 people. Students had to write an essay to take the exam, but Huo Yingdong still passed the exam, and he was the first among the admitted names. Later, he transferred to Huangren Academy. The academic system of the academy is reversed and starts from Class 8, which is equivalent to the first grade of junior high school. At that time, Class 8 of the academy had three classes with 30 students in each class. However, most of them were introduced through teachers, parents and various connections, and less than 10 people were actually admitted through the examination. They were also required to write an essay when taking the exam, and Huo Yingdong was the first to be admitted. 9. Li Ka-shing: He dropped out of school to work at the age of 14. In June 1939, the iron hoof of Japanese imperialism began to trample on this peaceful land. All day and night, Japanese planes bombed the Chaozhou area indiscriminately, turning the peaceful and beautiful Chaozhou city into ruins. The Li family risked being killed at any time, dodged stray bullets that came from time to time, climbed over blockades, walked for more than ten days, slept and ate in the open air, and went through numerous hardships to reach Hong Kong. The family stayed at the home of his uncle Zhuang Jing'an. Misfortunes never come singly. At this time, Li Ka-shing's father Li Yunjing unfortunately contracted lung disease due to overwork. As the eldest son, Li Ka-shing took care of his father while studying hard for his homework. He knew that his father was sick, so he hoped to study hard to achieve good results so that his sick father could get spiritual comfort. In order to treat his father's illness, Li Ka-shing's family lived in poverty. Two meals of porridge, plus the vegetable leaves my mother collected from the market, were the "delicious food" for the day. The family's only hope is placed on Li Ka-shing's father, hoping that he can recover from his illness as soon as possible so that the family can overcome this difficulty. My father failed to survive that winter and passed away. As the eldest son, Li Ka-shing had no choice but to end his studies with tears in his eyes and go out to work to support his family. After his father's death, 14-year-old Li Ka-shing was forced to leave his beloved school and use his still young shoulders to resolutely shoulder the burden of supporting his loving mother and raising his younger siblings. Li Ka-shing first worked as a young apprentice making tea and sweeping floors at his uncle Zhuang Jing'an's Zhongnan Watch Company. After Li Ka-shing arrived here, the first skill he learned was to observe words and emotions and act according to the opportunity. He is always the first to arrive at the company and the last to leave the company every day. Three hard and difficult years have passed, and the 14-year-old boy has grown into a lean but strong and heroic young man. At the age of 17, Li Ka-shing worked as a salesman in a hardware manufacturing factory and a plastic belt manufacturing company, and began his sales career as a "street boy" as Hong Kong people call him. 10. Robin Li: He was obsessed with opera in his childhood. Born in Yangquan, Shanxi Province, Robin Li didn’t think he had great ambitions when he was a child. Like all children who have gone wild, he seemed busy every day, but it was nothing more. Just "following the crowd". Robin Li's parents work in Jindong Chemical Factory, and their family background is very ordinary. Robin Li has three older sisters and one younger sister. His shyness and gentleness may be related to the favor of his sisters. His father often took Robin Li to watch opera movies, and he became obsessed with opera for a time. His stage is very small, just the bed at home. He often tied a sheet around his waist to make a war skirt, used a stick as a gun, and appeared alone. When Shanxi Yangquan Jin Opera Troupe was recruiting students, he went there. The theater teacher saw a kind of aura in every move and decided to admit him. But Robin Li's interest in opera soon faded. Robin Li's eldest sister was admitted to university in the year when the national examination was just resumed, attracting the envy of her neighbors. Compared to studying drama, going to school is more attractive because of its orthodoxy. Another interpretation can be made about Robin Li's study of opera. In fact, what he really likes is not opera, but the stage. Only on the stage can you show your talents step by step and infect more people. This is in line with Baidu’s current philosophy of “changing lives with technology”.