Difficult childhood? Can‘t spell? You should be perfect entrepreneur
material.

A survey of Britain‘s 69,000 self-made millionaires has unraveled the mindset of the
successful entrepreneurs and found most like to take risks, half come from unprivileged
backgrounds and 73 percent don‘t notice or care what others think of them.

The survey also found evidence that 40 percent of entrepreneurs are likely to be dyslexic,
four times the national average.

Ivan Massow, a dyslexic entrepreneur who made a fortune selling insurance products to gay
men, achieved only on O-level. He says his dyslexia was a driver to success.
“It‘s the ‘nothing-to-lose‘ syndrome–the fact that you are so miserably neglected by the
education system.”

There is an extensive list of self-made millionaires who are dyslexic, including Richard
Branson, nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and Ben Way, who at
the age of 17 was the head of a ￡6million computer business.

翻譯：

如果你從小家境不好，沒文化，那么你就是塊優(yōu)秀企業(yè)家的好料子？

英國(guó)一項(xiàng)對(duì)69000個(gè)自我奮斗發(fā)家的百萬富翁的調(diào)查揭示了這些成功企業(yè)家的思想傾向。他們中的大多數(shù)人都喜歡冒險(xiǎn)，一半的人有著社會(huì)底層的家庭背景，并且有73%的人不在乎別人對(duì)自己的看法。

這項(xiàng)調(diào)查同時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)，40%的企業(yè)家有可能是誦讀困難患者，這一比例是英國(guó)大眾發(fā)病率的4倍。

通過向同性戀者出售安全防護(hù)產(chǎn)品而發(fā)家的伊萬·馬索就是一個(gè)誦讀困難者。他只通過了英國(guó)中學(xué)生的普通考試。他認(rèn)為誦讀困難促成了自己的成功，“你‘一無所有’，你是教育體制下的悲慘棄兒，（你才會(huì)想豁出去干一番事業(yè)）。”

一長(zhǎng)串患有誦讀困難病癥的自主創(chuàng)業(yè)致富的百萬富翁的名單中，包括理查德·布蘭森，夜總會(huì)老板彼得·斯特林費(fèi)羅，名廚杰米·奧利弗和17歲就成為600萬資產(chǎn)的計(jì)算機(jī)企業(yè)領(lǐng)袖的賓·威。