It's not all about grades and education. This is proven by famous and successful people WHO did NOT finish school or complete the formal part of their education, but found themselves in a different way in life.
Let me give you some examples they will not be deceived, if you are still sitting behind the educational desks…
These famous and successful people did NOT finish school:
1. THOMAS EDISON
The greatest inventor of all time, to whose name there are more than 1,000 patents, started school late due to illness. In the pews his thoughts often wandered, and the teachers considered him confused, that's why it is left school after only three months. Fortunately, his mother was a teacher, so she taught the future multimillionaire right at home.
2. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Politician, diplomat, inventor, co-author of the Declaration of Independence, printer, publisher, and the list goes on. Benjamin Franklin had many different occupations, but he went to school left at the age of ten and started going to work with his printer father. Considering the family situation, the decision is not that unusual either: he lived in a family with 20 children, among whom he was born as the fifteenth and as the youngest son.
3. BILL GATES
The co-founder of Microsoft, who was named the richest man on Earth for several years in a row, is was in his 1st year at Harvard, when he read a magazine article about the Altair microcomputer. He clearly did not lack courage, because he did left his studies immediately and instead began writing software for Microsoft's Altair with Paul Allen.
4. ALBERT EINSTEIN
The most famous physicist of all time, who established the theory of relativity, was no Einstein in his early years at school. He left school at fifteen and when he wanted to continue his education a year later at the prestigious Swiss Institute of Technology, he did not take the entrance exams. He only succeeded on his second attempt, after he returned to high school and finished his exams there first.
5. WALT DISNEY
He is a world-renowned film producer left school at the age of sixteen because of the First World War. He wanted to join the army but was too young, so he joined the Red Cross instead. With a forged birth certificate, he then came to France, where he is drove a Red Cross ambulance, which was drawn with illustrations that later became his movie characters.
6. RICHARD BRANSON
The world-famous billionaire and founder of Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Mobile and Virgin Records was anything but a brilliant student. Dyslexia caused him problems, so he left school at the age of sixteen and moved to London and began his entrepreneurial career by starting Student magazine.
7. CHARLES DICKENS
He is the author of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities left school at the age of twelve, when they are his father was put in prison for debt. So he started earning money in a factory that painted black boots, where he worked 10 hours a day. Later, he changed several jobs and became a journalist at the age of 22.
8. JOHN ELTON
One of the most successful musicians of all time, he won a scholarship to study piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London at the age of eleven. After five years of playing, it is got tired of it all and started playing at the local pub on the weekends instead. The path of his musical success began a year later, at the age of seventeen, when he founded the band Bluesology.
9. RAY KROC
It's Ray Kroc the founder of the most popular and widespread food chain in the world - McDonald's. A man who had a $500 million fortune in his lifetime dropped out of school at the age of fifteen during World War I and lied about his age to be like Walt Disney became a Red Cross ambulance driver.
10. PRINCESS DIANA
Princess Diana is sixteen failed all O-level exams (examinations that all schoolchildren in Great Britain must pass at the age of sixteen). Her parents therefore sent her to school in Switzerland, which she also left, so she worked part-time employed as an assistant in Young England Kindergarten. Fortunately, her unhappy career ended quickly, as she got engaged to Prince Charles in 1981 at the age of nineteen.
