College Dropout
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10 Most Successful and Famous College Dropouts
By Emily Thomas
While a college degree is heralded as the only way to get a solid, profitable career in modern society, there’s no rule that you need to graduate to make it big in the world. In fact, there are lots of examples of successful, famous individuals who simply felt that college couldn’t satisfy their ambitions and dreams. And if anyone asks you to prove it, just point to these incredibly successful and famous college dropouts.
Brad Pitt: Brad Pitt is one of the most famous movie stars on the planet. People around the world have seen his movies and recognize his face, though he’s a college
dropout, he’s also supremely rich. Pitt was born in Shawnee, OK,
and attended the University of Missouri the early 1980s, studying
journalism. Two weeks before he was set to graduate, Pitt dropped
out of school and moved to Los Angeles to take acting classes.
Today, he has two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe, and a
career that doesn’t seem like it will ever end.
Woody Allen: Writer, comedian, film director and actor Woody Allen is an American icon and a New York legend who has been influencing art and cinema since the 1960s. Known as a neurotic intellectual, Allen began his comedic career at
just 16, when he began writing with Sid Caesar. He attended New York
University, but was eventually expelled.
Bill Gates: Bill Gates has been named the richest man in the world, and in 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that Gates’ net worth had reached an estimated
$40 billion. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, was a promising
student with a very high IQ and even enrolled at Harvard. Gates had
already started a company with Steve Allen as a teenager, and at
Harvard, he continued to grow his network of the computer scientists
and professionals who would eventually run Microsoft. Gates
eventually dropped out to start his career, but in 2007, Harvard
awarded him an honorary degree.
Tom Hanks: Tom Hanks is one of the most respected men in Hollywood, and is an Academy Award winning actor, as well as a director, producer and writer. Hanks’ career box office totals reportedly exceed $3.3 billion, thanks to films
like Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Philadelphia, and Forrest Gump.
Hanks, who is distantly related to Abraham Lincoln, attended Chabot
College and California State University - Sacramento, though he
dropped out to intern for the Great Lakes Theater Festival in
Cleveland.
Ted Turner: Outspoken media mogul Ted Turner has founded multiple TV stations including CNN and TNT. He is considered to be one of the richest Americans and even donated $1 billion to UN causes. Turner, who was born in Cincinnati, OH, in
1938, attended a prep school as a boy in Tennessee and attended
Brown University, studying classics, and later, economics. Turner,
ddhowever, was eventually expelled after getting caught with a girl
in his dorm room.
Steve Jobs: As co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc., Steve Jobs is one of the most successful and respected executives in business and in the computer science
industry. Steve Jobs grew up in California and attended Reed College
in Portland, though he dropped out after one semester. Jobs
continued to audit classes at Reed, and even credits a calligraphy
class he attended as the inspiration for all of the fonts on
Macintosh computers. Four years after enrolling at Reed, Steve Jobs
and Stephen Wozniak founded Apple.
Michael Dell: Dell CEO Michael Dell actually started his first computer company as a student at the University of Texas at Austin. His grandparents helped fund the
company, and Dell dropped out of college to run his company, PC’s
Limited. PC’s Limited ultimately became Dell, Inc.
John Glenn: John Glenn is the first man to orbit the Earth and has enjoyed a successful career in the Navy, Marine Corps, space exploration, and U.S. politics. Glenn is also one of the most famous astronauts in U.S. history and was
awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. As a young
man, Glenn studied chemistry at Muskingum College in Ohio, where he
earned his pilot’s license.
Marisa Tomei: Academy Award-winning actress Marisa Tomei has enjoyed a successful TV, film and stage career since she started acting on soap operas in the
1980s. Tomei has appeared in and starred in My Cousin Vinny,
Seinfeld, In the Bedroom, and The Wrestler, as well as many Broadway
productions. The Brooklyn native attended the elite Edward R. Murrow
High School in Midwood, NY, and went on to Boston University and
then New York University, though she ultimately dropped out of
college to pursue acting on As the World Turns.
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If staying longer to learn more is a wholesome trend at U.S. colleges, it is not necessarily the only path to real achievement. Fame and success can also come to the 60% of all
U.S. collegians who quit the campus where they started. Case in point: Scott Carpenter.
Astronaut Carpenter twice flunked out of the University of Colorado. Yet last week, when Colorado gracefully gave him his B.S. in aeronautical engineering, President
Quigg Newton aptly explained: "For years to come, his example of courage and character, and of what a man can make of his life if he wills to do so, will serve as an inspiration to thousands of young people in this university." Carpenter's fellow astronaut John Glenn failed to finish at Ohio's Muskingum College. In the same flight pattern was Charles Lindbergh, who quit the University of Wisconsin after two years to learn flying.
In fact, a list of famous dropouts could well begin with John F. Kennedy, who dropped out of Princeton in 1935 before he crashed through at Harvard (cum laude) in 1940—along with Jacqueline Kennedy, who deserted Vassar before eventually graduating from George Washington University. Woodrow Wilson dropped out of North Carolina's Davidson College, later went on to Princeton. Robert Frost quit Dartmouth and William Faulkner the University of Mississippi. Architect Edward D. Stone dropped out of the University of Arkansas. Henry Ford II left Yale; his fellow auto tycoon, George Romney, spent only a year at the University of Utah. Psychiatrist Karl Menninger quit Kansas' Washburn College after two years; California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike left the University of Santa Clara after his
sophomore year. Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty failed to finish at U.S.C., Berkeley or Oxford—and went on to become "the richest man in the world."
College psychiatrists by no means disapprove of all dropouts. If dropouts lack "motivation," it may be a healthy reaction against too many rules and goals that—for them—are momentarily false. Adolescence is by definition a struggle to create a self. Sometimes an intelligent retreat is the best way to win. Says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford: "Leaving college may leave a student with a sense of unfinished business that will, in some cases, provide motivation for learning for the rest of his life."
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In fact if success is why you want to go to college, you may not need to go:
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Famous College Drop-Outs Who Became Successful
Something that really surprised me when I began to study business is the lack of connection between business success and formal education.
Fortunately he has no shortage of inspiration. Did you know these famous business owners were also college drop-outs?
1) Bill Gates-founder of Microsoft; billionaire
2) Michael Dell-founder of Dell Computers; billionaire
3) Steve Jobs-co-founder of Apple Computers; billionaire
4) Steve Wozniak-co-founder of Apple Computers
5) David Geffen-co-founder of Dreamworks, SKG
6) Larry Ellison-founder of the database company Oracle; billionaire
7) William Hanna-of the cartoon producers Hanna-Barbera
8) Sheldon Adelson-real estate and casino owner; billionaire
9) Jack Taylor-Enterprise Rent-A-Car; billionaire
The more I've continued to look into this, it's nearly the same story with most industrialized nations around the world. There are a lot of billionaires that dropped out of high school and college for various reasons, from Li Ka-Shing in Asia (net worth of nearly $12 billion) to Roman Abramovich (richest man in Russia at $18.2 billion) to Amancio Ortega (Spain's richest man at $14.8 billion). There is a pattern to all of this, and it's interesting to me. For all the famous people out there, there are thousands of successful people that aren't as well known but have similar circumstances.
I think the message you can take away from all these businessmen is that you have your success in your hands. The lack of a formal education does not have to be an excuse not to succeed in life unless you want it to be. In my case, I better not let my college degree be an excuse not to succeed!
Success without a college degree
POSTED: 9:12 a.m. EST, November 3, 2006
By Kate Lorenz
CareerBuilder.com
Adjust font size:CNN.com has a business partnership with CareerBuilder.com, which serves as the exclusive provider of job listings and services to CNN.com.
(CareerBuilder.com) -- Many think the only way to succeed is through education. While piling on the degrees can earn you piles of dough -- and debt -- it's not the only option.
Some of today's most successful people don't have a college degree. But what they lack in academic credentials, they make up for in tenacity, brains, guts and strong business sense.
Richard Branson -- In 1970, Richard Branson founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer, and not long afterward he opened a record shop in London. Two years later, the
first Virgin artist, Mike Oldfield, recorded "Tubular Bells." Since then many household names, including Ben Harper, Fatboy Slim, Perry Farrell, Gorillaz, Lenny Kravitz, Janet Jackson and The Rolling Stones have helped to make Virgin Music one of the top record
companies in the world.
Branson sold the equity of Virgin Music Group -- record labels, music publishing and recording studios -- in 1992 in a $1 billion deal, but he remains chairman of Virgin Group,
which today includes Virgin Atlantic, Books, Games, LifeCare, Limousines, Megastores and Hotels.
Janus Friis -- Named to Time Magazine's 2006 list of 100 most influential people, Janus Friis holds no formal education. He worked at the help desk of CyberCity, one of Denmark's
first ISPs and later worked at Tele2, the leading alternative consumer oriented pan-European telecom operator. It was at Tele2 where Friis met Niklas Zennström, with whom he co-founded the file-sharing application KaZaA and Skype, the peer-to-peer telephony application. In early 2006, Friis and Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6 billion.
Anna Wintour -- Best identified by her trademark sunglasses and pageboy hairstyle, Anna Wintour is an icon of the fashion world. She reportedly attended North London Collegiate
School, but never graduated. She started in 1970 working in the fashion department of Harpers and Queen in London. In 1976, she was named fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar, followed by a brief stint at New York Magazine, three years as creative director of American
Vogue, and finally named editor of British Vogue in 1986.
In 1998, she became editor-in-chief of American Vogue. Wintour's work style is so notorious, the novel "The Devil Wears Prada" and its subsequent motion picture are said to
be based on her. In recent years, she's focused on many philanthropic endeavors including raising more than $10 million for AIDS, putting Vogue's support behind women-owned businesses in Kabul, Afganistan, and promoting various post-9/11 campaigns.
Barry Diller -- Barry Diller started his career in the mail room of the William Morris Agency after dropping out of UCLA after one semester. He was hired by ABC in 1966 where he created the ABC Movie of the Week, pioneering the concept of the made-for-television movie.
At age 32, he became president of Paramount Pictures, which produced a string of successful television shows (Laverne and Shirley, Taxi, Cheers) and feature films (Saturday
Night Fever, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Beverly Hills Cop) under his helm. From 1984 to 1992, he was chairman and CEO of Fox Studios and was responsible for creating the Fox Broadcasting Company. Today, Diller is the chairman of Expedia and the chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, which includes Citysearch, Evite, Home Shopping Network, Lending Tree, Match.com and Ticketmaster .
Sources: Virgin Group Web site, "Tavis Smiley" on PBS, FoodTV.com, Washington Post Company Web site, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Time.com, BusinessWeek.com,
Hispanictrends.com, Skype.com, Vogue.com.
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