You always do not need to have a graduate degree in a specialized area of working, to become successful, you can achieve big despite being a dropout  like some of the great personalities we are discussing at here.

Brad Pitt: One of the most reputed film stars of present era Brad Pitt was supremely rich and attended the University of Missouri in early 1980s, learning journalism, however, just two days before completing graduation Brad Pitt left the school and moved to Los Angeles to attend acting classes. Presently, he has two Academy Award nominations and a Golden Globe.

Woody Allen: Writer, comedian, film director and actor Woody Allen is an American icon and a New York legend that has been influencing art and cinema since 1960s. Renowned as a neurotic intellectual, he started his career at the age of 16, when he started writing with Sid Caesar. At his academic career, he was expelled during completing his graduation at New York University.

Bill Gates: Bill Gates, the richest man of the world in year 2009, with nearly $40 billion in possession and co-founder of Microsoft was an intelligent student with very high IQ at Harvard. He started his company at with Steve Allen as a teenager and at the same time at Harvard, he kept on increasing his network of the computer scientists and professionals to run Microsoft and had to drop out to start his career. However, in 2007, Harvard awarded him an honorary degree.

Tom Hanks: One of the reputed actors of Hollywood, Tom Hanks is an Academy Award wining actor, director, producer and writer.  Total collection for Tom Hanks’ movies goes to $3.3 billion due to movies like Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. A hank, who is distantly related to Abraham Lincoln, attended Chabot College and California State University- Sacramento had to quit the college for attending Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland.

Ted Turner: Considered as one of the richest American, who donated $ 1 billion to US causes founded multiple TV stations like CNN and TNT. He studied at Brown University learning classics, economics and was expelled from the university after being caught with a girl in his dorm room.

Ellen DeGeneres: She was on the top of pop culture for decades and is a successful comedian, TV actress, film actress. She also anchored as Academy Awards winner and Primetime Emmys. She learnt communications at the University of New Orleans, however, after one year of admission, she left the college to do odd jobs it the city to start her career as stand-up comedian.

Steve Jobs: Co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc., Steve Jobs is one of the most reputed and successful entrepreneurs in the computer science industry. He brought up in California and attended college at Reed, however left it after one semester. However, not left learning and joined calligraphy class to get an idea about the fonts on Macintosh computers. After four years Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak founded Apple.

Michael Dell: Dell CEO Michael Dell launched his first computer company as a student at the University of Texas at Austin. He was aided by his grandparents to start the company and he left the college to run his company PC’s limited, that finally became Dell, Inc.

Marisa Tomei: Academy Award holder actress Marisa Tomei has a great career in TV, film and stage that she started as soap opera actress in the 1980s. She had acted in My Cousin Vinny, Seinfeld, In the Bedroom, and The Wrestler and many Broadway productions. She was studied at elite Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, NY, and then reached to Boston University and New York University, though dropped out to continue acting on in As the World Turns.

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