This is my reply to Top 10 Billionaires That Dropped Out Of School by spywareczar.

People often get the misconception that MOST billionaires did not go to school or maybe dropped-out of college. Well, this is largely false as only 18% of the 234 US billionaires today dropped out from college or didn't go to college at all (http://www.b2barticles.org/2000/27/index00.php).

What i am trying to say is that formal education is very important.


1- Steve Ballmer (Worth 15.2 billion usd):
Steven Anthony Ballmer born March 24, 1956 is an American business man who currently serves as the CEO or Microsoft.
Ballmer was born in Detroit, the son of Beatric Dworking and Frederic Henry Ballmer, a manager at the ford motor company. His father was a swiss immigrant and his mother was jewish.
In 1977, he graduated from Havard University with an A.B. in mathematics and Economics

Seth Klarman (1.05 Billion dollars)
is an american billionaire who founded the Baupost Group, a Boston-based private investment partnership, and the author of Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor a book on value investing.He is worth 1.05billion dollars. larman started The Klarman Family Foundation ($255 million in assets as of 2010) which donates to medical causes, Jewish organizations (such as the American Jewish Committee and Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies), and Israeli causes. Klarman is the chairman of Facing History and Ourselves which develops

classroom programs to combat anti-Semitism and bigotry. Klarman also is active with the The Israel Project, a pro-Israel advocacy group that collects and provides information on Israel for journalists. He gave the organization $4 million between 2008 and 2010
Klarman is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Business School

Stephen F. Mandel Jr: is the founder of hedge fund Lone Pine Capital
Mandel is a 1974 graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and a 1978 graduate of Dartmouth College where he majored in government and was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He also has an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
His networth is 1.8billion dollars

Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Slim has been ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world since 2010.[3] His extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso, SA de CV, have amassed interests in the fields of communications, technology, retailing, and finance. Presently he is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and América Móvil.
América Móvil, which in 2010 was Latin America’s largest mobile-phone carrier, accounted for around US$49 billion of Slim's wealth by the end of 2010.[4] His corporate holdings as of March 2013 have been estimated at US$73 billion.
He went on to study civil engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, while simultaneously teaching algebra and linear programming there

http://spankthedonut..com/2013/04/five-billionaires-that-graduated-from.html#more

Afam4eva:
[size=14pt]The argument is not about whether people who didn't go to school are better than those who didn't. The point is that people can be whatever they want whether they acauired a formal education or not. The most important thing is to be educated.
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Well, we have heard so much about people who didn't really acquire formal education but still made it..... Kids use that as an excuse not to further their education.

This post is to let those kids know that there are more "educated billionaires" than there are "uneducated billionaires" and that they stand a better chance at succeeding if they stay in school.