Greatest College Drop Outs Ever ~ EinTech

Every one probably been told by their parents that if they want a successful career then they must go to and graduate from a college or university. But there are many people who prove this theory is wrong. Here we take a look at the 10 most successful and popular and most wealthy college drop outs ever.

10. Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods chose to continue playing amateur golf at Stanford university as an economic major. Perhaps it was in Econ 101 that he learned the term " opportunity cost, " because his time at Stanford was not long. After two years there, Woods turned pro with his " Hello World " announcement, officially ending his collegiate career. He is one among the most successful American golfers Formerly the worlds No. 1, he was the highest paid athlete in the world according to Forbes for several years.

9. Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germankotta mostly known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an american singer and songwriter, The artist attended New York University's Tisch School of Arts, but dropped out after just a year to pursue her music career full time. She broke onto the New York Club scene with her performance and was signed to Inter scope records by the age of 20. Her 2008 debut album, The Fame, has had the world going gaga for Gaga ever since.

8. Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford is an American film actor and producer he is famous for his performance in Star wars trilogy and the tittle character of the Indiana Jones film series. he majored in philosophy at Ripon college, but dropped out shortly before graduation. Turned to a career in professional carpentry instead. Almost ten years later, he would co-star in George Lucas 1973 graduation night comedy American Graffiti and subsequently joined Lucas in a galaxy far, far away in the 1977 blockbuster Star Wars.

7. Tom Hanks

TIME has called Tom Hanks America's chronicler in chief, He is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. He left college to intern full time at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. there, he learned various aspects of theater from lighting to set design, laying the foundation to his career in Hollywood. .

6. Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is an American programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the five co-founders of Facebook. he is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc. He founded Facebook only for students of Harvard later the popularity of the social network spreads al over the world. Zuckerberg packed up his bags and relocated the fledgling company to paloAlto, California, forever leaving behind Harvard's hallowed halls. According to Forbes, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world, with a 2010 net worth of $4 billion.

5.James Cameron

James Francis Cameron is a Canadian film director, film producer, deep-sea explorer, screenwriter, visual artist and editor. He worked for many movies from 1984 to recent movie Avatar( 2009 ).He spent several years in making documentary films.The young Cameron enrolled in Fullerton College to study physics. His academic life did not last long. He would drop out , marry a waitress and eventually become a truck driver. It was not until he saw Star War in 1977, he quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry.

4. Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster he was an American system theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor and futurist, college dropout. Expelled from Harvard not once but twice, Fuller's post-drop out period was anything but successful. He suffered a string of bad business ventures and years of anguish following his daughter's death. He felt responsible and this caused him to drink and to contemplate suicide for a while. At age of 32, Fuller set out on a one man quest to change the world for the better. His unorthodox ideas and his iconic geodesic domes would bring him international fame recognition.

3.Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wrigth was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1000 structures and completed 500 works. He spent more time in designing colleges than attending them. Frank Lloyd Wright was admitted to the university of Wisconsin-Madison in 1886, but left after only one year.he would move to Chicago and eventually apprentice under Louis sullivan, the " father of modernism ". Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.

2. Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs best known as co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. He was an American entrepreneur. He dropped out of Reed College after six months because of the undue financial strain it on his working-class parents' savings. He would go on to eventually found Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar. However his brief tenure in academia was not for naught. In 2005 commencement speech he gave at Stanford university, Jobs credited a calligraphy class he took at Reedy college with forming the basis for the typography used in the first Macintosh computer.

1. Bill Gates

William Henry Bill Gates III is an american business magnate and philanthropist, best known as former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the worlds largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. The Harvard Crimson called him " Harvard's most successful dropout ". For more than a decade Bill Gates has been one of the wealthiest, men in the world. The son of an attorney and a school teacher, Gates entered Harvard in 1973, only to drop out , two years later he found Microsoft with chilhood friend Paul Allen in 2007.