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10 successful people who dropped out

When parents project the future of their children they usually draw a path that they believe will lead them directly to success : from nursery to school and from institute to university .A title under the arm seems to be the catapult that will launch you to victory.However, if we take a look at the Olympus of the celebrities , many of them did not end your training .We will meet 10 Successful people who dropped out of school

10 Successful people who dropped out of school

1.Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg, joined the Harvard University in 2003 , after several problems with the university's administrative council for computer programs, in 2004 he created Facebook for a year.leave the university, with the intention of and return, to devote himself to his incipient company.

10 successful people who dropped out

In 2005, he definitively abandons his studies , Facebook is already unstoppable.

2.Steven Jobs

Apple's co-founder entered college in 1972 , was at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. At 6 months he dropped out of his studies , apparently for economic reasons, although he managed to continue attending as a listener the classes that seemed interesting for two years.In 1976 he founded Apple.

3.Amancio Ortega

The second fortune of the planet , according to Forbes magazine, I leave studies at age 12 because of the family economic situation and at age 14 already I worked in a well-known shirt in A Coruna.

10 successful people who dropped out

From there, he entered the textile world until he reached what he is today.

4.Woody Allen

The great director and actor only attended a semester at New York University .I study some subjects related to the cinema, but what he liked most was to attend the screening of films that included some of them.

10 successful people who dropped out

I get really bad grades and leave college.

5.Mary Kay Ash

The founder of the cosmetics company Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc .was born in 1918 in Texas.After a difficult childhood, she got married very young.She had 3 children, He divorced and alternated several jobs while he was in medical studies.He abandoned them due to success She used as a salesperson and preparer of saleswomen.Later she founded her own company with an innovative sales system that made her famous worldwide.

6.Bill gates

In 2007 Bill Gates was named Doctor Honoris Causa in Law by Harvard University in honor of his humanitarian work.Why Harvard? Why right? Because those were the studies that left in 1975 to found Microsoft with its partner Paul Allen.

7.Harper reads

Nelle Harper Lee, the author of the winning novel of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize «Kill a Ruisenor», studied law at the University of Alabama and Oxford, as an inercam student, but never graduated .A few months before getting his degree he dropped out of school and went to New York to pursue his vocation as a literary.

8.John Lennon

John Lennon was a bad student since his childhood.Thanks to his aunt's intervention, he got into the Liverpool Art College, but dropped out of those studies definitely opting for music.

10 successful people who dropped out

9.Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel, mother orphaned at 11, was admitted to a very hard religious institution that dealt with girls without resources .Alli learned to sew, iron and embroider.Technically he did not abandon his studies because he was never given the opportunity to have them .

10 successful people who dropped out

At 18, he moved to Moulins where briefly continued his apprenticeship until he went to work in a tailor's workshop.

10.Walt Disney

Disney dropped out of school at age 16 forging a birth certificate to be able to enlist voluntarily.They were the last years of World War I.I never went into combat and Returning to the US in 1919, did not resume his training .He got a job at an art studio that was making advertisements for magazines, newspapers and cinemas.

All these tri personalities Although they abandoned their studies early, they were and are uniquely gifted individuals.For most mortals , the safest way to achieve success is, Without a doubt, complete a training.

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