10 people who didn't finish school, but are among the richest and most successful

Mark zuckerberg and Bill Gates

Time magazine sheds light on American personalities who did not have the opportunity to complete their university education, and yet they made their way to stardom and wealth.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

He is called "the most successful Harvard dropout", while the rest of the world calls him the world's richest.. For more than a decade, the name Gates has been steadfast in the list of the world's richest people. Gates, the son of a lawyer father and a school mother, joined the prestigious university in 1973, to cut short his studies two years later to found Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.

More than thirty years after leaving Harvard, he returned to receive an honorary doctorate, and said in a graduation speech: “I have a bad influence and that is why I was invited to the graduation ceremony. If I spoke during the university induction ceremony, few of you would be here today.”

Steve Jobs 

Steve Jobs

Computers “Mac” or “iPod” or “iPad” would not have made their way to become an effective force in shaping the features of modern technology, if Steve Jobs had continued his studies, which he interrupted after six months of joining “Read” College due to financial hardship. His family is from the working class.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

One of the pioneers of architecture in the first half of the twentieth century, and is considered the most famous in America, he spent more time designing scientific edifices than he spent between classes.

He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1886, and dropped out after only one year. He moved to Chicago and was trained by Louis Sullivan, the father of "Modernism". His accomplishments include more than 500 works, the most famous of which are Falling Water and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Buckminster Fuller

An architect, thinker, inventor and futurist, he did not complete his university education either. He was expelled from Harvard University not only once but twice, followed by a series of failures that led him to contemplate suicide.

He did futuristic designs in the 1940s and designed a house called Dimaxion that looks like a flying saucer and can be easily disassembled, packed and carried wherever the family moves.

He was once asked about the secret of brilliance, and he said that it is: a vast collection of experiences that its owner can use well.

James Cameron

The Oscar-winning director came to Hollywood by twisting roads, and his family emigrated from Canada to California in 1971, where he studied physics at Fulton College, but his academic career was short-lived, dropping out of school and marrying a waitress, becoming a truck driver for a local school.

He did not rise to stardom until 1977's "Star Wars", joining the list of celebrities and directing the best and most expensive science fiction films.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

Most university students use their rooms in the dormitories either to sleep or study or to do hidden things without their parents’ knowledge. There, Zuckerberg founded the most famous social site “Facebook”, which was originally intended for Harvard students, but the popularity of the site quickly spread to the rest of American universities and colleges.

As the site grew in popularity, the students packed up and left for California.

According to Forbes, Zuckerberg, the world's youngest billionaire, is estimated to be worth $4 billion this year.

Tom Hanks

He left college in Sacramento to join the Ohio Concert Theater, where he learned various aspects of theater from lighting to design, laying the foundations for his career in Hollywood and launching as an actor, producer, director and writer.

Harrison Ford

The star of “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” studied philosophy at “Ribbon” College to abandon his studies before graduation, and worked in a number of small businesses in Hollywood, but his dissatisfaction with these small roles pushed him to work in carpentry, to return ten about a decade to Hollywood Once again, he is on his way to fame.

Singer "Lady Gaga"

Known before "Gaaa" as Stephanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta, she left studying art a year after joining New York University's Tisch College, to pursue her full-time music career. She signed a contract with Interscope Records at the age of twenty, and released her first album, "Fame" in 2008.

Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods chose to play amateur golf at Stanford University where he was studying economics, and it wasn't long until he dropped out after two years there, becoming one of the world's highest-paid athletes, earning more than $100 million a year at the height of his career.