55 School Drop Out Billionaires and Successful Entrepreneurs

According to this recenlty-published article on StrategicBusinessStream.com,most of the world’s richest men and women were school drop-outs.  We learn that: 

• Bill Gates: Dropped out of Harvard and held the position of the world richest man for thirteen consecutive years.
• Walt Disney: Dropped out of high school at 16 and founded a company which now has an annual revenue of about $30billion.
• Li Ka Shing: Billionaire owner of Hutchinson Whampoa; one of the largest conglomerates in Hong Kong, dropped out of school at the age of 15 and started out by selling watch bands.
• Lawrence J. Ellison: Dropped out of college twice and was told by his adoptive father that he would never amount to anything, but he went on to become a billionaire by building Oracle, the world’s second largest software company.
• Henry Ford: was born in abject poverty. He never saw the four walls of school but he went on to build Ford Motor Company 
•  Madame C. J. Walker: Born into the family of ex-slaves and farmers. Despite being widowed at the age of 20 and faced with extreme hardship, she started a cosmetics business and went on to become the first American self made female millionaire.

And so on and so forth...a total of 55 billionaires and spectacularly successful entrepreneurs who either dropped out or never saw the inside of a school.

Jagor's comment:

This is a great article.  It amply demonstrates that schools don't teach entrepreneurship or innovation; instead, they inculcate conformity and obedience.

When you start thinking about it, compulsory public schooling is a fairly recent idea, only dating from the 19th century in Europe, when the generals, plutocrats and politicans figured out that compulsory public schooling was an efficient way to manufacture millions of docile and obedient wage slaves to populate their farms, mines, factories and sweatshops and provide an abundant supply of cannon fodder for their incessant wars.

Read the full article to learn about the world's 55 most successful drop-outs:   
Drop-out Billionaires 

Jagor