Look at the childhood life of rich people. Every rich man has a different growth experience. Buffett started to set up stalls at the age of 5. Ding Lei's academic performance has been around 10 in his class, but Ma Yun changed his life because of a book. 1, Ding Lei: Tenth Phenomenon We found Ding Lei's footprint in Fenghua Middle School, Zhejiang Province. 1September, 1986, Ding Lei was admitted to Fengzhong and became one of 56 students in Class 2, Grade 1, Senior High School at that time. Jiang Hong is his classmate. In teacher Jiang Hong's memory, Ding Lei's academic performance was average more than 10 years ago. When he entered school, he only ranked forty or fifty in the class, which is very asymmetrical with the current title of "the richest man". "Well, every time the exam, his ranking is always improved. However, it is best to be between the tenth and twentieth places, and never reach the top ten in the class, let alone the grade ranking. " Three years later, in the national examination, Ding Lei's performance was equally mediocre: he was lucky to be admitted to Chengdu Dianzi University with a score higher than the key score 1. However, this is Ding Lei's favorite university, and he has long been fascinated by this institution of higher learning with a large number of western e-books. "The education sector is now keen to discuss the' tenth phenomenon'. What it says is that in a class, the person who ranks tenth in academic performance is expected to become the best person in the future. I think about it now, and the case of Ding Lei is also in line with the' tenth phenomenon'. " Teacher Jiang Hong said this about his old classmates. 2. Ma Yun: A book changes life. Ma Yun has been a silly child since he was a child. When I was a child, I loved to fight. I fought countless times, once not for myself but for my friends. After the injection of 13, he was punished and forced to transfer to Hangzhou No.8 Middle School. Due to poor family circumstances and great family pressure, my father has a bad temper. Ma Yun grew up under his father's fist, but he couldn't stay at home, but he especially loved making friends. He said, "I'm stupid, but I'm actually stupid." My brain is so small that I can only think about problems one by one. You ask three questions, I can't digest them. " Since childhood, Ma Yun did not do well in his homework, and he passed the math exam 1. Only English is particularly good, and the reason turns out to be: "When my father scolds me, I answer back in English. He doesn't understand. He enjoys it. When he was at school, the more he learned, the more excited he became. " From the age of 13, Ma Yun rode his bicycle all over Hangzhou with foreigners. Since childhood, Ma Yun has not only never been to a first-class university, but even primary and secondary schools are third-and fourth-rate. Junior high school and senior high school took the exam twice, mathematics 3 1, and national examination mathematics 2 1. After failing in the national examination, the weak Ma Yun began to step on a tricycle. Until one day I found a book in Jinhua Railway Station, Life by Lu Yao, which changed the silly child: "I want to go to college." 1984, Ma Yun was admitted to the Foreign Languages Department of Hangzhou Normal University several times-it was a junior college score, 5 points short of the undergraduate course, but the undergraduate course was not full, so Ma Yun was lucky to be admitted to the undergraduate course. 3. Shi Yuzhu: I once dreamed of becoming Chen Jingrun. Since junior high school,/kloc-left his hometown at the age of 0/8. Shi Yuzhu climbed the mountain for several good classmates for nothing. Everyone climbs mountains, but I don't. I felt so different that I got into the habit of climbing mountains. 1962, Shi Yuzhu, from Huaiyuan County, northern Anhui Province. "My father is from Huaiyuan Public Security Bureau and my mother is a factory worker." Before the second day of junior high school, Shi Yuzhu was often scolded by her mother for her poor grades, love to play and read picture books. 1977 national examination resumed, and Shi Yuzhu began to study hard. Previously, he was "decentralized" after graduating from high school. /kloc-Before the age of 0/8, Shi Yuzhu had seen the prosperity of Shanghai twice with his father, and his basic impression was that it was "too big". The most impressive thing is that there is an international hotel on the 24th floor of Nanjing Road and the Bund. The buildings on the Bund are different from those in Huaiyuan. They are very foreign. At the moment, despite walking on Nanjing Road, Shi Yuzhu still feels far away from Shanghai. 1980, Shi Yuzhu ranked first in the total score of the county, 1 19 (poor 1) was admitted to the Mathematics Department of Zhejiang University. But after only one semester in the Department of Mathematics of Zhejiang University, Shi Yuzhu gave up his dream of becoming Chen Jingrun. "I borrowed number theory from the library. After reading it, I realized that mathematics was so difficult. " Being smarter than other students also puts a lot of pressure on Shi Yuzhu. "Especially in the south of the Yangtze River, those who get good grades don't want to go to Tsinghua Peking University, but to Zhejiang University. So there are too many smart people and too many good students in our class. " Knowing that 1+ 1 could not be broken, Shi Yuzhu's mathematical ideal was shattered. I really want to do something, but I realized very early that I can't do it, which is the main reason for my disillusionment. After disillusionment, Shi Yuzhu began to run and cultivate various hobbies. He ran from Zhejiang University to Lingyin Temple every day, at 18, and then came back for four years. 4. Buffett: 5-year-old stall to make money Warren Buffett 1930 was born in a small town called Omaha in the western United States. When he was born, it was the most difficult years for his family. Father Howard Buffett lost all his money by investing in stocks, and his family life was very tight. In order to save some money for drinking coffee, my mother didn't even go to the church friend's party. Buffett has found numbers interesting since he was a child, showing extraordinary digital memory ability. He can spend the whole afternoon with his friend Russell, recording the license plate numbers of cars coming and going in the street. In the evening, they began to repeat the game they thought was interesting: Russell read the names of many cities in a big book, and Buffett quickly reported the population of each city. A friend of Buffett recalled that when he was five years old, Buffett set up a stall in the aisle outside his home and sold chewing gum to passers-by. Later, he switched to selling lemon juice downtown. 5. Richard Branson: British Virgin Group, a business empire with 350 branches, won chocolate from a young age, involving aviation, telecommunications, trains, credit cards and other fields. Its founder and CEO, Richard Branson, the whole family is full of adventurous spirit, especially Branson's mother, who often deliberately creates challenges for her children. Branson's parents have attached great importance to 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 and let little Branson walk home by himself. Facing the endless fields, little Branson got lost. Branson has a business mind since he was a child. Once, his parents gave him a toy electric train, and he modified the train to increase the speed, and set the ticket price of two chocolate biscuits per person for the children to watch. As a result, for half a month in a row, Branson didn't worry about not eating cookies. /kloc-At the age of 0/7, Branson finally left school and founded Student Magazine in a small basement under the sponsorship of his mother's 4 pounds. Branson is in charge of the commercial operation of the magazine. When his partners were still keen on politics, he was thinking about how to make full use of students' brands to diversify. (Famous saying Sun) lied to Coca-Cola when pulling advertisements that Pepsi had booked advertising space for magazines; He pretended to be busy in front of visiting reporters; He invited Beatle John Lennon and other celebrities for an exclusive interview, and also sent reporters to hot spots around the world for interviews. He founded his own brand and others paid for it-all of which made the circulation of Student soar to 200,000. 6. Carnegie: The first salary is 50 cents a day. Andrew carnegie, the steel magnate, showed his business ability in his early years. Once, his mother rabbit gave birth to a litter of rabbits. He doesn't have enough food to feed rabbits, and he doesn't have money to buy rabbits. Carnegie has a plan in mind. He told the children nearby that if anyone could get broccoli and plantain to feed his rabbits, he would call them names as rewards in the future. This plan really worked miracles. Throughout the summer vacation, the children are willing to help him collect cauliflower and banana. Carnegie had a job delivering telegrams in his early years, with a daily salary of only fifty cents. At that time, he was eager to be an operator, so he taught himself the telegraph 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 operator had not yet gone to work, so Carnegie took it for him and quickly delivered it to the receiver. After that, he was promoted to operator, and his salary doubled. By chance, Carnegie went to road to riches. Once, on his way to a place by train, an inventor sat next to him and showed him a new model of sleeping car he invented. Carnegie's unique agility and foresight enabled him to see the great future of this invention. So he borrowed money to buy shares in the company that owned the invention. When Carnegie was 25 years old, he received an annual dividend of $5,000 from this investment. 7. Bill Gates: When he was a child, even when he became an adult, Bill was untidy. It is said that in order to change this habit, Mary made a dress plan for him for a week. He wears blue on Monday, green on Tuesday, brown on Wednesday, black on Thursday, and so on. Weekend meal time is also carefully arranged, and everything should be in good order. The discussion at Bill's table is always lively and instructive. "It was a rich learning environment," Bill recalled. Bill's contemporaries, even at that age, could see that he was different. Every year, he and his friends go to summer camp. Bill especially likes swimming and so on. A friend of his at the summer camp recalled, "He will never be insignificant or insignificant. We all know that Babe is clever. Earlier, when he was nine or ten years old, he spoke like an adult. Sometimes what he said made us feel very profound. Babe's classmates are also better at math and science. He needed to go to a challenging school, and then his parents decided to send him to Lakeside Middle School, a school for special boys. This is the most restrictive school in Seattle. It is famous for its strict curriculum requirements. This is a place where even dumb children are smart. 8. Henry Fok: I couldn't afford to wear shoes when I was a child. Henry Fok's ancestral home is Panyu County, Guangdong Province, and he was born in Hong Kong boathouse on May 1993 1923. Grandpa Huo Dachao once owned a sailing boat, which traveled between Hong Kong, Macao and other provinces and engaged in freight business. However, when Henry Fok came to this world, his family was already in a very difficult situation. He lives on his father's chartering and barging. He has a low income and a hard life. His family is too poor to wear shoes. No matter how cold and hot it is, they walk barefoot. Once during the Spring Festival, his father wore a pair of new shoes to the street for the first time. He took off his shoes at the stall and squatted on the stool to eat powder. After dinner, I left on my feet. When I got back to the boat, I found that I didn't put my shoes back, because I never wear shoes. There was no weather forecast at that time, and house boat's life was not guaranteed. Two brothers of Henry Fok were killed in the typhoon. One is 5 years old and the other is 7 years old. Fortunately, his mother was saved by his uncle, but soon his uncle was overturned and drowned in the wind and waves. When Henry Fok was about 7 years old, his father died of illness, and he was only in his 40 s. Because I was ill for a long time, I used Chinese herbal medicine every day, and my limited money was spent. After I died, I just buried it in Tsing Yi Island. After his father's death, the life of the Huo Yingdong family became more difficult. At that time, he also had a 9-year-old sister and a 5-year-old sister, and the burden of life fell on his mother. My mother is a tenacious, hardworking and diligent person. In that troubled day, she was not impressed by the heaviness of life, but stood up straight and tried to continue the lightering business left by her husband. This kind of barge business is to contact the freighters in the open sea and transport the goods to the shore on their behalf with small sampans. At that time, the main cargo was coal, and the Huo family had no barge. They took over the business from the shipowner and then distributed it to the sampans, earning a meager commission. Because Henry Fok's father was very popular when he was alive, and his mother was open-minded and decent, most boatmen and sampans sympathized with orphans and widows and barely survived. Although Henry Fok's mother can't read, she hopes her children can read and write. At about the age of six, Henry Fok was taught by others. Then he went to the maritime school, which was free of charge. His family lives in the same boat, wandering around, attending classes is very abnormal, and sometimes it is not easy to find a boat after school. Three shifts, transfer to Dunmei Primary School. This primary school is charged and has free classes, but only 30 students are enrolled. Students have to write an article to take the exam, but Henry Fok was admitted. He was the first person to be admitted. Later, I transferred to Ren Huang College, and the academic system of the college was reversed from Class 8, which was equivalent to the first grade of junior high school. At that time, Class 8 of the Academy recruited three classes, each with 30 students, but most of them were introduced by teachers, parents and various relationships, and less than 10 students were actually admitted. During the exam, he also asked for an article, and Henry Fok was also the first to be admitted. 9. Li Ka-shing: 65,438+04 years old, dropped out of school to work. 19, in June, 39, Japanese imperialism began to trample on this quiet land. Japanese planes bombed Chaozhou all day and all night, and the peaceful and beautiful Chaozhou city was in ruins. The Lee family risked being killed at any time, escaped stray bullets from time to time, climbed a blockade line, walked for more than ten days, slept all the way, and went through hardships to come to Hong Kong. My family lives in my uncle Zhuang Jing 'an's house. It never rains but it pours. At this point, Li Ka-shing's father Li Yunjing was unfortunately infected with lung disease because of overwork. As the eldest son, Li Ka-shing took care of his father while desperately reviewing his lessons. He knows that his father is ill, so he hopes to study hard to get good grades and give his sick father a spiritual comfort. In order to treat their father, the Li Ka-shing family lived a very poor life. Two meals of porridge, plus vegetables and leaves picked up by my mother at the market, are the "delicious" of the day. The only hope of the whole family lies in Li Ka-shing's father, hoping that he can get better as soon as possible and let the whole family tide over this difficulty. Father didn't survive that winter, but he gave up and died. As the eldest son, Li Ka-shing had to finish his studies in tears and go out to work to support his family. After his father's death, Li Ka-shing, aged 65,438+04, was forced to leave his beloved school and resolutely shouldered the burden of supporting his loving mother and raising his siblings. Li Ka-shing first worked as an apprentice in Zhongnan Watch Company of Uncle Zhuang Jing 'an. After Li Ka-shing arrived here, the first kung fu he learned was to sense motive and play it by ear. He is always the first to arrive at the company and the last to leave it every day. Three years of hard work have passed, and 14-year-old boy has grown into a lean but strong and heroic young man. Li Ka-shing, 17 years old, worked as a salesman in hardware factory and plastic belt manufacturing company, and started his sales career as a "street boy" by Hong Kong people. 10, Li Yanhong: Li Yanhong, a native of Yangquan, Shaanxi Province, has been fascinated by opera since he was a child. When he was a child, he didn't feel how big he was. Like all children with wild hearts, he seems to be busy every day, but in fact he just "goes with the flow". Li Yanhong's parents work in Jin Dong Chemical Plant, and their families are very ordinary. Li yanhong has three sisters, 1. His shyness and gentleness may be related to the love of his sisters. My father often took Li Yanhong to see opera movies, so he was once fascinated by opera. His stage is very small, just the bed at home. He often wraps sheets around his waist to make a combat suit and plays with a stick as a gun, and always appears alone. When Shanxi Yangquan Jin Opera Troupe enrolled students, he went, and the theater teacher saw an aura from a stroke and decided to admit him. But Li Yanhong's interest in opera soon disappeared. Li Yanhong's sister was admitted to the university in the year when she just resumed the national examination, which attracted the envy of her neighbors. Schools are more attractive because of orthodoxy than studying drama. For Li Yanhong's opera research, we can also make an interpretation. In fact, what he really likes is not the opera, but the stage. Only on the stage can we show our talents one by one and infect more people. This is in line with Baidu's concept of "changing life with technology".