Last call for eight billionaires

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

All of them considered university studies a waste of time. Is it really possible to become successful and rich without a higher education diploma? The Kramola portal invites you to look at those who, to put it mildly, have slightly overtaken the bulk of graduates.

1. Henry Ford. The only educational institution that this brilliant man graduated from, who launched the first automobile assembly line and had an almost 200 billion fortune (in terms of the modern course), was a church school. He made ridiculous mistakes in letters, but he became the founder of one of the largest automobile companies and was the author of 161 patents. Ford believed that a person should first of all be able to use his own head, and not blindly follow what is written in textbooks.

2. Richard Branson, He did not study well at school and finally left it at the age of 16, and did not even think about entering a university. However, this did not stop him from founding the mega-corporation Virgin Group and amassing a fortune in excess of $ 5 billion. According to Branson, he is annoyed at how much time and money has to be spent on higher education.

3. Peter Thiel. Despite having a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a Ph. D. in law, the founder of the international payment system PayPal, with a fortune of $ 2.5 billion, speaks of higher education like a soap bubble. In his opinion, it is much more expedient to deal with real problems instead of chasing a prestigious education.

4. John Rockefeller. The man who became the world's first dollar billionaire and by the end of his life earned $ 340 billion (at the modern exchange rate), also did not have a higher education. After graduation, he only took a three-month accounting course, which was enough for him to achieve success in life and write his name in history with truly golden letters. He noted that a diploma can only become an impetus to the beginning of a career, but in no way a means for making a profit.

5. Steve Jobs. He dropped out of college six months after he entered, as he realized that there is no point in studying, and it does not help him understand what he really wants and find his own way in life. Lack of higher education did not become an obstacle to universal recognition and wealth, which at the time of the death of the founder of Apple was about $ 7 billion.

6. Amancio Ortega. One of the most influential and wealthy people in the world, with a fortune exceeding $ 76 billion, was born into a poor Spanish family, and began working at the age of 13, so he simply did not have time to get an education. The multibillionaire calls his profession his university.

7. Warren Buffett. The successful investor, whose fortune is estimated at about $ 85 billion, even has two higher education degrees, but, according to him, they have never been useful to him in his life. The only worthwhile investment in education he sees is the $ 100 fee for the public speaking course he took with Dale Carnegie.

8. Larry Ellison. The founder of one of the world's largest IT corporations Oracle, operating in 145 countries, and the owner of a fortune in excess of $ 60 billion, several times tried to get higher education, but he never did. However, he was able to become incredibly successful and rich without a diploma, which, according to him, can give an advantage in business, but cannot guarantee ultimate success.