50 Extremely Successful People Who Never Finished School

1. George Washington ​President of the United States
2. Abraham Lincoln ​​President of the United States
3. Harry Truman ​​President of the United States
4. Grover Cleveland ​​President of the United States
5. Zachary Taylor ​​President of the United States
6. Andrew Johnson ​​President of the United States
7. John Glenn ​​​Astronaut, U.S. Senator
8. Barry Goldwater ​​U.S. Senator
9. Benjamin Franklin ​​U.S. Ambassador
10. Winston Churchill ​​Prime Minister of England
11. John Major ​​Prime Minister of England
12. Robert Frost ​​Poet
13. Florence Nightingale ​Nurse
14. Buckminster Fuller ​Futurist and Inventor
15. George Eastman ​​Founder of Eastman Kodak
16. Ray Kroc ​​​Founder of McDonald’s
17. Dave Thomas ​​Founder of Wendy’s
18. Ralph Lauren ​​Fashion designer and Entrepreneur
19. Doris Lessing ​​Nobel Prize recipient in Literature
20. George Bernard Shaw ​Playwright
21. Peter Jennings ​​News anchor for ABC
22. Christopher Columbus ​Explorer
23. TD Jakes ​​​Pastor
24. Joel Osteen ​​Pastor
25. John D. Rockefeller ​Founder of Standard Oil
26. Karl Rove ​​​Presidential advisor
27. Ted Turner ​​Founder of CNN
28. Quentin Tarantino ​Movie director
29. Peter Jackson ​​Movie director (Lord of the Rings)
30. Mark Twain ​​Author
31. Leon Uris ​​​Author
32. Carl Bernstein ​​Washington Post reporter
33. Carly Fiorina ​​CEO of Hewlett Packard
34. Charles Dickens ​​Author
35. Andrew Carnegie ​​Industrialist
36. William Faulkner ​​Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner
37. Li Ka Shing ​​Wealthiest man in Asia
38. Richard Branson ​​Founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Records
39. Enzo Ferrari ​​Founder of Ferrari
40. Henry Ford ​​Founder of Ford Motor Company
41. J. Paul Getty ​​Founder of Getty Oil
42. Jack London ​​Author
43. Larry Ellison ​​Founder of Oracle
44. Tom Anderson ​​Founder of MySpace
45. Mark Zuckerberg ​​Founder of Facebook
46. Steve Jobs ​​Founder of Apple
47. Steve Wozniak ​​Founder of Apple
48. Bill Gates ​​​Founder of Microsoft
49. Paul Allen ​​​Founder of Microsoft
50. Ringo Starr ​​Beatle

The point of sharing this list with you is not to suggest that kids should drop out of school, or that school is not important. Education is very important. The question is: What kind of education? And where will your children’s education take them? Will it prepare them for the future? Will it secure their financial future in a world with less and less security?
(excerpt from Robert Kiyosaki Blog : http://www.richdad.com/Resources/Rich-Dad-Financial-Education-Blog/april-2013/50-extremely-successful-people-who-never-finish.aspx )