英國8歲富翁：網上賣彈球身價愈百萬

Harli Jordean is not your average eight year old. While his friends are playing computer games, he is busy liaising with suppliers, buying stock and handling orders for his internet marble empire. The tiny tycoon from London has been running the thriving website for two years.
哈里-喬登不是個普通的8歲小孩，當他的同齡人都在打電腦遊戲時，他卻在忙着爲他的網上彈球公司聯繫供應商，購貨，處理訂單。這位來自倫敦的小富翁經營了一個專賣彈球的網站長達兩年，生意紅火。

The company is now turning over thousands of pounds each year - with orders flooding in from as far away as America. Harli is so busy he's even had to employ his mum and two older brothers to help him cope with the sheer demand for products on his website. But, instead of being overwhelmed, the primary school pupil remains professional and has ambitious plans for the future. Harli said: 'My dream is to have a chain of stores like Hamleys - it will be one of the biggest toy stores in the world but selling all sorts of marbles.
他的這家公司每年年收入可以達到上千英鎊，訂單也來自世界各地，連美國的訂單都有。哈里現在很忙，他不得不僱傭自己的媽媽和兩個哥哥來幫他一起處理網上訂貨要求。不過，小哈里並未被此打倒，反而保持着專業的水準，而且對未來充滿鬥志。他說，“我的夢想是要開像哈姆利（英國最受歡迎的玩具店）那樣的連鎖店，它會成爲全世界最大的玩具店之一，但只賣各種各樣的彈球。”

The excitable entrepreneur kick-started his way to becoming a millionaire when he innocently began trading marbles with friends in the playground. But when some older kids took all his stock, Harli turned to the bank of mum to buy him some more on the net. And after they struggled to find anywhere dedicated to selling Harli's favourite toy, he begged his mum, Tina, to let him start his own site. Within months of launching, Tina was shocked to see orders flooding in - with Harli handling them all on his own.
這位白手起家的百萬富翁最初也只是在操場上和朋友們買賣彈球。但後來一些大一點的孩子搶走了他的彈球后，他只得向媽媽求助，去網上買。在母子倆千辛萬苦找了很久之後，哈里央求媽媽蒂娜給他建立一個自己的網站。網站開業後幾個月，蒂娜就驚奇地發現有大把大把的訂單進來，而網站一直只有哈里一個人在打理。

'My thinking was it would be a good way to teach Harli some great life skills and show him responsibility. I never thought it would become so popular - we are struggling to cope with the number of orders at times.'
媽媽蒂娜說，“我當時就是想，這可以給哈里好好上一課，教會他做事要有擔當。我從沒想過網站的生意會那麼好，我們有時處理訂單都忙不過來。”

She added: 'As a boss he is very amenable and has his own ideas of how to do things. He is fiercely ambitious and is very determined and outgoing. Sometimes his ideas are so grand we have to scale them back a bit. But his dream is still to own Britain's biggest marble shop and open stores around the world.’
蒂娜還說，“哈里是一個非常友善的老闆，而且他做事很有自己的想法。他很有抱負，做事果斷，開朗外向。有時，他的想法太過於異想天開，我們還要幫他收收心。但他的夢想還是要開英國最大的彈球商店，並在全世界開連鎖店。”