It is obvious that going to universities brings a good chance for students to get better jobs in the future, but it is not always true. Many of our most famous and successful businessmen in the world were already college dropouts. They want to start and keep on their career, so they have no time to continue their study even at the prestigious universities like Havard or Oxford. Let's take an inside look at the list of famous drop-outs as follows:
Steve Jobs - the CEO of Apple Inc.
Steve Jobs attended Reed College for just one semester due to the financial problem. Now, he is the founder and CEO of Apple Inc and became Disney's largest shareholder after selling it Pixar.
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates-founder of Microsoft
Bill Gates is the richest man in the world with a net worth of $50 billion. He dropped out of Harvard when he was 19 to work on the company he started up. Today he has left Microsoft and is involved in his philanthropic mission with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill Gates
Mark Zuckerberg - cofounder of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard after starting a social networking site in his dorm room in 2004. The social networking site he founded is Facebook which is valued net worth at $1.5 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg
Calvin Klein - fashion designer of Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein was born in Brooklyn and learned sewing from his mother who was an excellent Jewishseamstress. He dropped out of Parsons School of Design and began designing coats. He has been the successful businessman who rose to the top in the fashion industry.
Calvin Klein
Coco Chanel - the founder of Coco Chanel
Coco was born in a poor house that came without necessities. With her parents unable to raise her, Coco had to spend her early years in an orphanage, during which she was first introduced to the world of sewing that will change her life. Coco Chanel is currently the fashion brand in the top of fashion industry.
Coco Chanel
Michael Dell - the founder of Dell Computers
Michael Dell started a small computer company while attending university. He was so busy with his work that he left the university. Michael did not disappoint as his company, Dell Inc. went on to create history as the most profitable computer maker in the world. As of today, Dell is the second largest PC maker in the world.
Michael Dell
Walt Disney - the founder of Walt Disney Corporation
Walt Disney - having dropped out of high school at 16, became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The Walt Disney Company now has annual revenues of more than $35 billion.
Walt Disney
Henry Ford - owner of the Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford at 17 left home and school to work as an apprentice machinist. Later, as owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. Today Ford Company has annual revenue of more than $173 billion.
Henry Ford
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