Billionaire Dropouts.



Stanley Ho is called the King of Gambling for a good reason: he controlled the casino business in Macau for over 35 years because of a government-granted monopoly.

Like many of his colleagues in this list, Ho’s early childhood was tough. Although his family was wealthy at one point, his father lost a lot of money in a stock market crash and went bankrupt. His father abandoned him and his elder brothers committed suicide, leaving Ho and his mother impoverished.

This really made Ho one tough guy: once, he was in charge of a trade at sea when the ship was attacked by pirates, who then shot dead his partners. Ho was holding the money (the equivalent of several million dollars today), so naturally, the pirates rushed him. Undeterred, Ho got hold of a gun, shot a few people, gained control of the ship, and beat back the pirates!
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Somebody get started on the script if it hasn't already been done for $.
 
Ellison, who dropped out his sophomore year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then dropped out again after just one quarter at the University of Chicago, is now worth about $19.5 billion.
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He's a bully I guess :)
 
ib4 Working Class Job Blow "Well, not everyone can be a millionaire you know ..."
 
Having a college or high school degree only dictates so much, and they usually don't promote an entrepreneurial way of thinking. All they do is herd you into a 9-5 system.

All it takes is the right mindset. Think big. Think against the grain of society. Don't be a sheep. Be creative and innovative. And work your mother fucking ass off. True, some people get lucky, but in more cases the so-called "luck" is actually someone who worked their ass off and eventually found something that made them a fortune.
 
College isn't for everyone and society shouldn't pretend that it is. If you're going to work for someone else and need it on your resume, or if you're going to work some specific jobs (doctor, etc) then you need it, but if you're going to work for yourself, in internet marketing for instance, then you usually don't. There's enough knowledge out there that you can self-teach.

Too many kids get pushed into college right after highschool, with no real idea of what they want for the future. I know someone that got a 4-year degree in psychology, then decided she hates it and is working minimum wage while taking new classes for a new degree...
 
Wonder if they're more that just don't say they dropped out.

I dropped out in sophmore year of high school, never regretted it but wonder what it'll be like when I have a billion.
 
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