About Barron
I’ve been really driven to succeed for as long as I can remember. When I was 7, I started my first business venture, selling baby chicks in front of a grocery store. But I had a hard time with school. I’m dyslexic. Words don’t come easy to me. And because I had such difficulty with school, I stopped going. They sent me to reform school. By 14, I was a dropout.
But my drive never went away. So I joined the carpenter’s union when I was 18. I started selling perfume and other merchandise out of my trunk, and pretty soon I was making more money doing that than I was with construction. I realized that my abstract thinking was unconventional, and that I’d be better off doing my own thing. I could see that there were only two paths in life to choose from: a life of financial hardship, or relentless hard work and sacrifice toward success.
Mark B. Barron in reform school
And during all this, despite my relentless drive to succeed, I kept running into the one thing that had held me back since I was a kid: my lack of education. I still had a hard time communicating all my big ideas effectively. And it hit me that if I simply taught myself to use intelligent words, then I would have the edge. I had the ideas and I had the drive – all I was lacking was the right words.