10 Students Drop Out Most Successful in the World

1. Bill Gates

Crimson called him "Harvard's most successful dropout." For more than a decade, Bill Gates became one of the richest people in the world. He is the son of a lawyer and school teacher. Gates entered Harvard in 1973, two years later DO. Then founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. In 2007, the founder of Microsoft is finally receiving a degree (honorary doctorate) from his alma mater. At the time, Gates said, "I was a bad influence, which is why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, it may be a few of you who are present here today."

2. Steve Jobs

Mac, iPod, Heck, even Buzz Lightyear probably would not exist if Steve Jobs was still in school. In the DO of Reed College after only six months of college due to financial problems. He eventually found Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar, which became an instrumental force in shaping modern culture. However, a brief period in the academic world was not in vain. In a speech at Stanford University in 2005, Jobs was given an award by a calligraphy class at Reed College because it forms the basis for the typography used in the first Macintosh computer.

3. Frank Lloyd Wright

America's most famous architect spent more time designing the building college than attending lectures. Frank Lloyd Wright accepted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1886, but left after one year. He moved to Chicago and eventually apprentice under Louis Sullivan, the "Father of modernism". At the time of his death, Wright's resume includes more than 500 works, most famous of which is Fallingwater and New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

4. Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller was an architect, thinker, inventor and DO students. Expelled from Harvard not once, but twice, the post-DO Fuller did not succeed. He suffered a series of failed business ventures and suffering after the death of his daughter. Fuller even had planned to commit suicide. At age 32, Fuller defined as a person who could change the world for the better. The most common idea like the Dymaxion house (a portmanteau of dynamic maximum tension) and the Dymaxion car can captivate the attention of the nation, while his iconic geodesic dome brought her international fame and recognition.

5. James Cameron

Academy Award-winning director, born and raised in Canada, he and his family moved to Brea, California in 1971. It was there that the young Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College to study physics. Academic life did not last long. He's on-dropout, married a waitress and eventually become a truck driver for a local school district. It started when he saw Star Wars in 1977 that inspired him to create a science fiction movie of the most amazing (and expensive) in the late 20th century

6. Mark Zuckerberg

Most students use their dorm rooms for sleeping, studying, or doing things that might not want to know their parents. However, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook from his room. Originally meant only for Harvard students, but social networking sites are becoming popular rapidly and spread throughout other colleges across the country. Following the explosion of the popularity of Facebook, Zuckerberg packed his bags and moved the company to Palo Alto, California, and forever leave the sacred class at Harvard. So far, the decision has worked out pretty well for a guy his age (20s years). According to Forbes, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world, with a fortune in 2010 for $ 4 billion

7. Tom Hanks

TIME magazine called Tom Hanks as the author chronicles in America. Sacramento States called it "most famous dropout". The actor left college to intern at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. There, he studied various aspects of theater from lighting to set design, creating a prefix to his career as a Hollywood actor, producer director, and writer. He did not forget his own past, in 2009, Hanks helped fund and raise money to help renovate the Cleveland theater where he started it all

8. Harrison Ford

Apparently a college degree is not a prerequisite for flying the "Millennium Falcon". Harrison Ford, famous in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones, majored in philosophy at Ripon College, but dropped out shortly before graduation. He then landed some small parts in Hollywood productions, but unhappy with such minor roles, turned to a career in professional carpentry instead. Nearly ten years later, in 1973 he became a star in George Lucas on graduation night comedy "American Graffiti" and then joined Lucas in a galaxy far away universe is in the 1977 blockbuster Star Wars.

9. Lady Gaga

Before he called "Gaga", she was Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, the artist better known as Lady Gaga attended a class at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, but dropped out after only one year, to fully pursue her music career. He joined the New York club scene with his silly show, and has signed a contract with Interscope Records at the age of 20. In 2008 to his debut album.

10. Tiger Woods

In a world where a person who has exceptional talent in sports, they tend to forget (override) higher education. So did occur in the pro, Tiger Woods. He chose to continue playing as an amateur golfer at Stanford University in the Department of Economics. After two years there, Woods turned pro and officially ended his career in college. He went on to become one of the highest paid athletes in the world, with earnings of more than $ 100 million per year at the peak of his career.