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Jan 19, 2023 · College is not for everyone, and there are many successful people who prove that. Here is a list of 33 successful people who never went to or finished college: 1. Bill Gates. As the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world.
- Mark Zuckerberg. - Company: Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg started creating what would eventually become Facebook while still a student at Harvard, then dropped out to put all his attention on the site—a story dramatized in the 2010 film The Social Network.
- Richard Branson. - Company: Virgin Group. Richard Branson is a high school dropout, quitting his formal education at 16 years. He was just 20 when he founded Virgin Group as a mail-order retailer.
- Bill Gates. - Company: Microsoft (former) Bill Gates implemented the programming language BASIC, first designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz and released at Dartmouth College in 1964, as a first-year student at Harvard.
- Russell Simmons. - Company: Rush Communications (former) Music mogul Russell Simmons until recently was best known as the cofounder of Def Jam Recordings and chair and CEO of his company Rush Communications, which oversaw his many businesses.
Jun 1, 2018 · 1. Ted Turner – Founder of CNN. Ted Turner is a media pioneer who created 24-hour news. Turner was expelled from Brown University and went on to start CNN. According to Forbes Ted Turner is now worth $2.3 billion. 2. Anthony Robbins – Motivational speaker.
- Ross Alex. Alex dropped out of college to become a real estate entrepreneur who’s now created two six-figure real estate businesses.
- Yashar Ali. Ali is a journalist responsible for breaking some of the biggest news stories in recent years from the Fox News sexual harassment scandal to Harvey Weinstein, to the Russia investigation, but he never went to college.
- Paul Allen. When you think of Microsoft, you probably don’t think of Paul Allen. But like Gates, Allen dropped out of college after two years to pursue computer programming.
- Mary Kay Ash. Ash was the founder of Mary Kay, the multi-level cosmetics marketing company, which today has over $3.6 billion in revenue per year. Ash didn’t go to college because her family couldn’t afford to send her.
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- Dustin Moskovitz, multi-millionaire co-founder of Facebook. Harvard dropout.
- Francois Pinault, the founder of the luxury group Kering, dropped out of school when he was 11 years old to work in his father’s lumber mill. Today, he has a net worth of $33.2 billion.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Never attended high school. He surpassed all odds when he became the most influential architect of the twentieth century.
- Frederick Henry Royce, auto designer, multimillionaire co-founder of Rolls-Royce. Dropped out of elementary school.
Dec 19, 2012 · Here are ten things they and others I’ve encountered along the way have taught me. 1. You can learn something useful from anyone. Whenever we find ourselves ignoring someone because we’ve ...
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John D. Rockefeller Sr. But even Ford wasn't as rich as John D. Rockefeller. The richest American that has ever lived, again adjusted for inflation, Rockefeller was worth an estimated $340 billion. The founder or Standard Oil did take a ten week business course in his early career, but of course this is nowhere a full college degree.
