For instance, when he was young, Hsu Wen-lung, chairman of Chie Mei Enterprises in Tainan, didn't test into an academic high school. Only with a lot of effort was he able to test into Tainan Technical High School, and his grades were quite poor. In a class of 40, he often came in around 20th place. On one test he came in 19th, and his mother was elated.
譬如台南奇美企業董事長許文龍，當年他沒有考上高中，勉強考到台南高工，而且成績很不好，一班四十人，常常落在二十名左右，有一次考到十九名，媽媽很高興，他告訴媽媽說，因為班上轉走一名學生。