People Who Didn’t Complete Or Didn’t Even Start College:

When you are having one of those days when you think you're not smart enough to be a successful entrepreneur, think of the people on this list - where would we be today if they thought they weren't smart enough?

  • Richard Branson, billionaire founder of Virgin Music.
  • R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.
  • Bill Gates, billionaire co-founder of Microsoft.
  • Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies.
  • Peter Jennings, news anchor.
  • Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers and Pixar Animation.
  • Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke College (America’s first women’s college).
  • Karl Rove, presidential advisor.
  • Walt Disney — you know Disney don’t you?
  • John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods.
  • Sergey Brin, billionaire founder of Google.
  • John Carmack, cofounder of Id Software.
  • Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist.
  • Scott Carpenter, astronaut.
  • John Chancellor, TV journalist and anchorman.
  • Winston Churchill, British prime minister.
  • Charles Culpeper, multimillionaire owner and CEO of Coca Cola.
  • Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computers.
  • George Eastman, multimillionaire inventor and founder of Kodak.
  • Larry Ellison, billionaire co-founder of Oracle software company.
  • Carly Fiorina, CEO, Hewlett-Packard.
  • Bobby Fischer, chess master.
  • Henry Ford, billionaire founder of Ford Motor Company.
  • J. Paul Getty, billionaire oilman.
  • Amadeo Peter Giannini, multimillionaire founder of Bank of America.
  • Hyman Golden, multimillionaire cofounder of Snapple.
  • Dean Kamen, multimillionaire inventor of the Segway.
  • Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager.
  • Ralph Lauren, billionaire fashion designer, founder of Polo.
  • Charles Lindbergh, aviator.
  • Jack London, bestselling novelist.
  • Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian president.
  • Steve Madden, shoe designer.
  • John Major, British prime minister.
  • Herman Melville, novelist, Moby Dick.
  • Karl Menninger, psychiatrist.
  • Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroad magnate.
  • Theodore Waitt, billionaire founder of Gateway Computers.
  • DeWitt Wallace, founder and publisher of Reader’s Digest.
  • William Safire, columnist for the New York Times.
  • Colonel Harlan Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
  • Vidal Sassoon, multimillionaire founder of Vidal Sassoon.
  • Richard Schulze, billionaire founder of Best Buy.
  • William Shakespeare, playwright, poet.
  • Barry Goldwater, U.S. senator and presidential candidate.
  • David Green, billionaire founder of Hobby Lobby.
  • Joyce C. Hall, founder of Hallmark.
  • Harold Hamm, billionaire oil wildcatter.
  • William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher.
  • Isaac Merrit Singer, sewing machine inventor.
  • Walter L. Smith, president of Florida A&M University.
  • Will Smith, Grammy-winning rapper, actor.
  • Alfred Taubman, billionaire chairman of Sotheby.
  • Jack Crawford Taylor, billionaire founder of Enterprise Rent-a-Car.
  • Dave Thomas, billionaire founder of Wendy’s.
  • Ted Turner, billionaire founder of CNN and TBS.
  • John Simplot, billionaire potato king.
  • Ty Warner, billionaire developer of Beanie Babies.
  • Sidney Weinberg, managing partner of Goldman Sachs.
  • Steve Wozniak, billionaire co-founder of Apple.
  • Wilbur Wright, inventor of the airplane.
  • Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, billionaire.
  • Claude Monet, painter.
  • Dustin Moskovitz, multi-millionaire co-founder of Facebook.
  • Walter Nash, prime minister of New Zealand.
  • David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue airlines.
  • David Oreck, founder of The Oreck Corporation.
  • George Orwell (aka Eric Blair), author of Animal Farm and 1984.
  • Larry Page, billionaire founder of Google.
  • James A. Pike, Episcopal bishop.
  • Ron Popeil, multimillionaire founder of Ronco.
  • Leandro Rizzuto, billionaire founder of Conair.
  • John D. Rockefeller Sr., billionaire founder of Standard Oil.

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