中國人喜歡管滿身泥土味的農民企業家叫做暴發戶，然后斜睨著他們露出一臉鄙夷的神情。那么，轉而瞧瞧滿地紳士的英國，他們白手起家的企業家大都具備什么素質呢？也許，百萬富翁，無論天南地北，其實一脈相承。

    Difficult childhood? Can't spell? You should be perfect entrepreneur material.

    如果你從小家境不好，沒文化，那么你就是塊優秀企業家的好料子？

    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.

    英國一項對69000個自我奮斗發家的百萬富翁的調查揭示了這些成功企業家的思想傾向。他們中的大多數人都喜歡冒險，一半的人有著社會底層的家庭背景，并且有73%的人不在乎別人對自己的看法。

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

    這項調查同時發現，40%的企業家有可能是誦讀困難患者，這一比例是英國大眾發病率的4倍。
　
    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."

    通過向同性戀者出售安全防護產品而發家的伊萬·馬索就是一個誦讀困難者。他只通過了英國中學生的普通考試。他認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，(你才會想豁出去干一番事業)。”

    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.

    一長串患有誦讀困難病癥的自主創業致富的百萬富翁的名單中，包括理查德·布蘭森，夜總會老板彼得·斯特林費羅，名廚杰米·奧利弗和17歲就成為600萬資產的計算機企業領袖的賓·威。