Eight People who proved college is not necessary for Successful Life
Getting a college education can be overrated, It's expensive, It doesn't always encourage critical thinking and many study just for the sake of studying something while
We're not suggesting you bail out of college there are certain times where college doesn't prove to be a necessity for success as you'll hear with these 8 people who prove college isn't necessary to be successful in life
Anna Wintour
Number One Anna Wintour with a net worth of 50 million dollars it's hard to imagine that this fashion mogul got there without any formal education dame anna wintour has been editor in chief of vogue
Since 1988 which publishes around 12 million magazines monthly and averages 1.2 million monthly online readers
She attended north london collegiate school and that's where her formal education ended fortunately for winter her father was a newspaper editor, Making her journey through fashion publications a little smoother than would be the norm
As she affirms i think my father really decided for me that i should work in fashion, So huge credit to her father for helping her become the success she is today
David Geffen
Number Two David Geffen a big jump in figures from anna wintour to david geffen who sits with a cool 10.2 billion dollars in his bank account
It's thanks to geffen that dreamworks even exists and he's the guy behind geffen records, So where did he begin that set him up for a few billion in the bank in the mail mailroom of william morris a talent agency who used to have charlie chaplin on their books
Geffen didn't want a chance not getting into college so he applied to three santa monica city college brooklyn college and the university of texas, But didn't study at any of them when applying for the job at william morris he lied and said he graduated from ucla along with a forged letter to prove the story
However there is a piece of him at ucla as he donated 5 million to the westwood playhouse since renamed the geffen playhouse
Addison Ray
Number Three Addison Ray she needs a little introduction and little education because it hasn't affected her rise to starry fame addison ray is a true testament to the quote of david letterman life experience is the best teacher
She was attending louisiana state university where she studied sports broadcasting but decided to call it quits when her tick tock career was doing the exact opposite rey has only been on tiktok for a little over two years
And she rose to fame fast her net worth is around five million dollars and her first pop single obsessed to reach number four on the new zealand hot singles and came in at 92 on the us billboard hot 100
Tyler Perry
Number Four Tyler Perry he's a multi talented force to be reckoned with he wears the cap of actor director screenwriter playwright producer author and songwriter and at an undisclosed date he added ged to the list
Perry dropped out of high school which didn't deter him in becoming a billionaire he was a carpenter's apprentice after receiving his ged or graduate equivalency degree and worked between 20 and 30 jobs before finding his calling which he credited to oprah
Perry says it was oprah that inspired his love of writing you can sample his writing by listening to his book don't make a black woman take off her earrings narrated by perry himself
Alicia Keys
Number Five Alicia Keys she was only 12 years old when she started writing music and had her first record deal at sweet 16
Alicia Keys is now worth about 150 million dollars juggling school and the music career is not easy which is why keys opted to leave columbia university after attending for just one month and focus on her career according to celebaancers.com the stress of balancing a burgeoning music career and juggling college classes proved to be a big feat for the busy teenager
But she does value the importance of education as keys once told a jet magazine i think school is important and i want to definitely go back even if i have to do an internet college course
Yankum
Number Six Yankum at just 45 years old yankum has amassed a fortune of 10.8 billion dollars not bad for a guy who was born in the ukraine immigrated to the u.s when he was a teenager with just his mom lost his dad and survived on the little money
His mom made babysitting while he was a cleaner in a grocery store his mom later succumbed to a long battle with cancer now if you ever needed an inspirational story this is it coomb had an interest in programming since he was 18 and enrolled in san jose state university
At the same time he was working at ernst young as a security tester which is where he met brian acton coomb dropped out of university
Later he worked for yahoo and eventually he and brian acton went on to invent whatsapp
Will Smith
Number Seven Will Smith aren't you glad we're not introducing Will Smith the engineer to you and rather will smith the actor and musician
Because if will smith had accepted his admittance to a pre engineering program at mit he may never have pursued his musical career which spanned into many other areas
Will's son jaden seems to have similar sentiments a few years ago he went on a huge twitter tirade encouraging students to drop out of school according to business insider jayden tweeted school is the tool to brainwash the youth he continued saying
If newborn babies could speak they'd be the most intelligent beings on the planet and concluded with if everybody in the world dropped out of school we would have a much more intelligent society 23 year old jayden smith is worth 8 million while his father is worth 350 million
Pete Cashmore
Number Eight Pete Cashmore named as one of the most influential people in 2012 by time
Pete Cashmore has a dozen more accolades to add to his resume the scottish multi millionaire is the ceo of mashable which he founded when he was just 19
There's no doubt that you've been unmashable at some point and as pointed out by the site pete has continued to push mashable to evolve from a tech blog to a global media company built around technology
Mashable attracts more than 20 million unique monthly views Cashmore actually had several medical complications that meant he took two years longer to finish high school and he never went on to attend college
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