$50 Dollar, Paul Orfalea’s parents claimed cost them for every word he could read.
The Kinko’s founder was dyslexic, failed second grade and was tutored extensively without any success. In 1950’s the affliction was so rare, his family couldn’t understand why he didn’t know the alphabet.
He was even sent to a school with retarded children.
Started Kinko’s in a converted burger stand, Paul has grown his company to 23,000 employees and successfully make “Kinko’s” is to copy centers what “Xerox” is to copy machines.
All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money and (b) not having done it before, ever.
Steve Wozniak, Apple
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August 19th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
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