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Motivation: Dropouts who made it big
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Columnists:
Sangeetha
Sridhar,
Dr.Rajan Philips,
Hasan Kamoonpuri,
Dr.Ramesh Kamath
Many have left education and
went on to make big bucks; here are a few who became successful billionaires.
Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar never attended
college.
After scoring a near-perfect 1590 on his SATs, Bill
Gates enrolled in Harvard but left without a degree to start Microsoft
Corporation.
Steve Jobs got himself enrolled in Reed College in
Oregon, but one semester later, he dropped out
After the wonder effect of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg
packed his dreams and left Harvard to relocate to Silicon Valley
Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder, attended the
University of Illinois but left at the end of his second year, as he skipped the
exams following the death of his adoptive mother. He then went to the University
of Chicago, but didn’t stay beyond a term.
English business magnate, Sir Richard Branson, best
known for his Virgin Group, had a difficult time in school because of his
dyslexia. He left school when he was only 16.
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg was not known for
his academic excellence. Interestingly, he even failed to get admission into a
film-making institute!
Hollywood film director Quentin Tarantino is a high
school dropout who went to work in a video store for his love for movies
( Courtesy: Yahoo )
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