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In modern society, receiving systematic college education seems a necessary way for success as a graduate from first-class university may always get more opportunities than others.
However, if it is gold, it will shine one day. The Time Magazine printed a list of 10 most successful people in U.S. who never received their sheepskins.
Those talents dared to break off the shackle of traditional perspectives. But without abandoning unremitting efforts, now they have climbed up to the peak of their life in various fields. Following experiences of these successful dropouts may give you some inspiration.
1 BILL GATES
Harvard’s campus paper “Harvard Crimson” called Gates "Harvard's most successful dropout," while the rest of the world preferred to name him “the world’s richest man” for more than a decade. Now, even not on the top, he is still among the list of the world’s wealthiest people.
Gates entered Harvard in the fall of 1973. Two years later, he dropped out to found Microsoft with friend Paul Allen. And in 2007, he finally received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater.
At the commencement, Gates said, "I'm a bad influence. That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today."
2.Steve Jobs
The iPad, the iPod, even Buzz Lightyear probably wouldn’t have existed if Steve Jobs stayed in school. Due to domestic financial difficulty, Jobs had to drop out of Reed College just after entering for 6 months.
Then he found Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar, which had made appreciable influences on development of modern technique and culture.
However, this wizard thought that his brief college education was not worthless. In a 2005 commencement speech he gave at Stanford University, Jobs credited a calligraphy class he took at Reed College with forming the basis for the typography used in the first Macintosh computer.
3. Frank Lloyd Wright
As the America's most celebrated architect, Wright spent more time on designing colleges rather than attending classes in them. Once spent one year in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then he left for Chicago and became an apprentice of Louis Sullivan, the "father of modernism."
Wright’s splendid resume included more than 500 works, most famous of which are Fallingwater and New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
However, if it is gold, it will shine one day. The Time Magazine printed a list of 10 most successful people in U.S. who never received their sheepskins.
Those talents dared to break off the shackle of traditional perspectives. But without abandoning unremitting efforts, now they have climbed up to the peak of their life in various fields. Following experiences of these successful dropouts may give you some inspiration.
1 BILL GATES
Harvard’s campus paper “Harvard Crimson” called Gates "Harvard's most successful dropout," while the rest of the world preferred to name him “the world’s richest man” for more than a decade. Now, even not on the top, he is still among the list of the world’s wealthiest people.
Gates entered Harvard in the fall of 1973. Two years later, he dropped out to found Microsoft with friend Paul Allen. And in 2007, he finally received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater.
At the commencement, Gates said, "I'm a bad influence. That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today."
2.Steve Jobs
The iPad, the iPod, even Buzz Lightyear probably wouldn’t have existed if Steve Jobs stayed in school. Due to domestic financial difficulty, Jobs had to drop out of Reed College just after entering for 6 months.
Then he found Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar, which had made appreciable influences on development of modern technique and culture.
However, this wizard thought that his brief college education was not worthless. In a 2005 commencement speech he gave at Stanford University, Jobs credited a calligraphy class he took at Reed College with forming the basis for the typography used in the first Macintosh computer.
3. Frank Lloyd Wright
As the America's most celebrated architect, Wright spent more time on designing colleges rather than attending classes in them. Once spent one year in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then he left for Chicago and became an apprentice of Louis Sullivan, the "father of modernism."
Wright’s splendid resume included more than 500 works, most famous of which are Fallingwater and New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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