10 world billionaires who did not graduate from college
(Baonghean.vn) - Many billionaires in the world have never completed university, or even a high school degree. Yet they own billions of dollars and are the owners of many large corporations and companies.
1.Richard Branson - $5.1 billion
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Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group. However, few people know that he did not graduate from college, or even high school. He started his business career when he was 16 years old. |
2. Ingvar Kamprad - $3.4 billion
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Ingvar Kamprad is the founder of Ikea. And his business career began when he was just 17 years old. |
3. Henry Ford - $188 billion
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Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He was one of the first to use the assembly line method of production in automobile manufacturing. His career began at the age of 16 as an engineering assistant. |
4. Michael S. Dell - 21 billion USD
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Michael S. Dell is the founder of Dell Technology Corporation. He left college after just one year to focus on developing the company. |
5. Li Ka-shing - 29.6 billion USD
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Li Ka-shing is a Hong Kong billionaire, investor, industrialist, and philanthropist. He started working at the age of 12 in a plastic flower factory. He is the Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Limited and Cheung Kong Holdings in Hong Kong, with 300,000 employees, operating in 52 countries, and a total revenue of 80 billion USD. |
6. Bill Gates - 87.4 billion USD
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Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft - the world's largest computer software company. For many years, he has been at the top of the list of the world's richest people. He has a degree from Harvard, however, this is only an honorary degree awarded by the university to Bill Gates for his contributions to the school. |
7. Larry Ellison - $41.5 billion
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Larry Ellisonis the founder of the world's second largest computer corporation Oracle Corporation. However, he still does not have a university degree. |
8. John D. Rockefeller - 392 billion USD
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John D. Rockefeller was an American industrialist who played a major role in the early oil industry, founded the Standard Oil Company, and was a controversial figure in American history. |
9. Armancio Ortega - 83.4 billion USD
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Armancio Ortega is the founder of the famous Spanish clothing and accessories brand Zara. While working for a local shirt manufacturer in Spain in the 1960s, Ortega began to dream of creating his own designs. He later married Rosalia Mera and the two developed their own designs and made them in their own home. And thus the Zara brand was born. He also dropped out of school at the age of 13. |
10. Mark Zukerberg - 61.7 billion USD
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Mark Zukerberg is the founder of Facebook - the world's most used social network. Mark Zukerberg studied at Harvard University but dropped out in his second year. |
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