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There have been and are many successful people with little or no formal education. That’s not to say these people didn’t educate themselves, but they just didn’t do it in the way we are forced to.

Also, many “dropouts” that are/were  successful in life, are risk takers, which is 1 reason many of them dropped out to pursue other things.

From Think and Grow Rich:

Successful people never stop acquiring specialized knowledge.

Let’s think about that for a minute.  They don’t pursue the cookie cutter education that we are force fed in the system.   They pursue education that matters to them and their business.  In doing so, learning comes much easier and is easier to retain.

Now, I’m not suggesting that kids reading this go and drop out of school, All I’m saying is that you have to learn what matters for you to be successful in whatever it is that you do.  In fact, getting a business degree can only help you along the path to becoming successful.

10 Successful People With Little Formal Education

(in no specific order)

1. Henry Ford - He needs no introduction.  Henry had less than a 6th grade education and his family is still reaping the benefit’s of his business.
2. Dave Thomas – Founder of Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers.  Dave overcame adversity in life being raised by adoptive parents.  Dave dropped out of high school not earning a GED until 1993, many years after becoming successful.  Dave also helped out the next person on this list by turning around a failing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
3. Colonel Sanders – Dropped out of elementary school after his father died to help his mother by cooking.  Harland Sanders went on to found the nations biggest fast food fried chicken restaurant – Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC).
4. Thomas Edison – Dropped out of elementary school after only 3 months of formal education.  Te One of the most famous inventors of all time with over 1,000 patents filed in his name.  Edison is the creator of the light bulb, phonograph, and movie camera. Edison went on to found General Electric, one of the largest publicly traded companies of all time.
5. Benjamin Franklin – One of our Founding Fathers, Ben dropped out of school at the age of ten to work for his father and brother as a printer.
6. John D. Rockefeller -  Dropped out of high school 2 months before graduation to take business classes.  He went on to found Standard Oil and made billions.
7. Walt Disney – Dropped out of school at 16 and joined the Red Cross where he drove an ambulance covered with cartoons that later earned him millions.
8. Richard Branson -  Dropped out at age 16 and started his first entrepreneurial enterprise publishing a magazine.  Later he went on to found the Virgin Group.
9. David Karp – Dropped out at age 15.  Later went on to found Tumblr.
10. George Burns – Dropped out in the 4th grade to do various jobs after his father died.  He went on to be one of the most famous entertainers of all time.

The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER, and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does not, necessarily, have to be in the possession of the man who accumulates the fortune.