College Dropouts!! ........ WoW



Bill Gates (billu)


Are college dropouts more successful than people with good education? It would seem so if you consider that many billionaires are people who dumped college. However, what this hides is the fact that although millions quit studies before completing them, very few of them go on to become rich.


What the list of the super-rich dropouts signifies is that in business, a top degree is not as important as having the right aptitude, attitude, determination and vision.


Here are some dropouts who went on to become billionaires:


William Henry Gates III

(1955-), along with Paul Allen, co-founded Microsoft Corporation, the world's largest software maker. Bill Gates, the wealthiest person in the world with an estimated net worth of

$480 crores (Rs 211,200 crore!),

is probably the best-known college dropout
.

Gates attended an exclusive prep school in Seattle, went on to study at Harvard University, then dropped out to pursue software development. As students in the mid-70s, he and Paul Allen wrote the original Altair BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800, the first commercially successful PC.


In 1975, Micro-Soft - later Microsoft Corporation - was born. Three decades on, Gates has been Number One on the Forbes 400 for over a dozen years. And here's something you probably didn't know: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation currently provides 90 per cent of the world budget for the attempted eradication of polio.



Larry Ellison


Lawrence Joseph Ellison (1944-)

, co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, founded his company in 1977 with a sum of $2,000. Once a school dropout, he is now, according to

Forbes, one of the richest people in America with a net worth of around $184 crores. The figure also makes him the ninth richest in the world.

As a young man, Ellison worked for the Ampex Corporation, where one of his projects was a database for the CIA. He called it Oracle, a name he was to reuse years later for the company that made him famous.

Interestingly, the organisation' s initial release was Oracle 2. The number supposedly implied that all bugs had been eliminated from an earlier version.

Ellison is quite a colourful man, and has long dabbled in all kinds of things. Want to learn more? Try his biography,

The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison.



Dhirubhai Ambani



Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani (1932-2002)

was born into the family of a schoolteacher. It was a family of modest means. When he turned 16, Dhirubhai moved to Aden, working first as a gas-station attendant, then as a clerk in an oil company.

He returned to India at 26, starting a business with a meagre capital of $375. By the time of his demise, his company - Reliance Industries Ltd - had grown to become an empire, with an estimated annual turnover of $120 crores!

Dhirubhai was, in his lifetime, conferred the

Indian Entrepreneur of the 20th Century Award

by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. A
Times of India

poll in the year 2000 also voted him one of the biggest creators of wealth in this century.


Dhirubhai's is not just the usual

rags-to-riches

story. He will be remembered as the one who rewrote Indian corporate history and built a truly global corporate group. He is also credited with having single-handedly breathed life into the Indian stock markets and bringing in thousands of investors to the bourses.




Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (1955-) and Apple Computer are names that have long gone together.

Born in the United States to an unknown Egyptian-Arab father, Jobs was adopted soon after birth. After graduating high school, he enrolled in Reed College, dropping out after one semester.

In 1976, 21-year-old Jobs and 26-year old Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer Co. in the family garage. Jobs revolutionised the industry by popularising the concept of home computers.

By 1984, the Macintosh was introduced. He had an influential role in the building of the World-Wide Web, and also happens to be Chairman and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.

Today, with the iPod, Apple is bigger than ever. Incidentally, Jobs worked for several years at an annual salary of $1. It got him a listing in the Guinness Book as `Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer.' He was once gifted a $9 crores jet by the company though. And his net worth? Moer than $3 billion.




Michael Dell

Michael Saul Dell (1965- )

joined the University of Texas at Austin with the intention of becoming a physician. While studying there, he started a computer company in his dormitory, calling it PC's Limited. By the time he turned 19, it had notched up enough success to prompt Dell to dropout.

In 1987, PC's Limited changed its name to Dell Computer Corporation. By 2003, Dell, Inc. was the world's most profitable PC manufacturer.

Dell has won more than his fair share of accolades, including Man of the Year from

PC Magazineand EM>CEO of the Year from Financial World.

Forbes, in 2005, lists him as the 18th richest in the world with a net worth of around $1600 Crores.

Not bad for just another dropout.




Subhash Chandra Goel

Here's something not many people know about

Subhash Chandra Goel : The Zee chairman dropped out after standard 12.

Subhash Chandra started his own vegetable oils unit at 19. It was, in a manner of speaking, his first job. Years later, a casual visit to a friend at Doordarshan gave him the idea of starting his own broadcasting company. We all know how that story ran.

Chandra knew nothing about programming, distribution or film rights. What he did understand quite well was the Indian sensibility though. Funded by UK businessmen, Zee came into being as India's first satellite TV network.


Today, it reaches 320 lakhs homes, connecting with 20 crores people in South Asia alone. The network also covers Asians in America, the Middle East, Europe, Australia and Africa, making this dropout a very rich one.



Moral of the story :

we have wasted our time...!!!!!

Before Marriage - - -

Boy: Yes. At last. It was so hard to wait.

Girl: Do you want me to leave?

Boy: NO! Don"t even think about it.

Girl: Do you love me?

Boy: Of course! Over and over!

Girl: Have you ever cheated on me?

Boy: NO! Why are you even asking?

Girl: Will you kiss me?

Boy: Every chance I get!

Girl: Will you hit me?

Boy: Are you crazy! I"m not that kind of person!

Girl: Can I trust you?

Boy: Yes.

Girl: Darling!

After marriage - - - simply read from bottom to top

A small touching story mainly for professionals. ..



A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his
5-year old son waiting for him at the door.




SON: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?"


DAD: "Yeah sure, what is it?" replied the man.



SON: "Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"


DAD: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?"

the man said angrily.


SON: "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an

hour?"


DAD: "If you must know, I make Rs.100 an hour."


SON: "Oh," the little boy replied, with his head down.



SON: "Daddy, may I please borrow Rs.50?"







The father was furious, "If the only reason you asked that is so you

can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then
you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about

why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this
childish behavior."



The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.


The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little

boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some
money?


After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to

think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that
Rs.50 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to

the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.



"Are you asleep, son?" He asked.



"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.


"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier" said the

man.


"It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you.. Here's the

Rs.50 you asked for."


The little boy sat straight up, smiling. "Oh, thank you daddy!" He

yelled.


Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills.
The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry

again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up
at his father.



"Why do you want more money if you already have some?" the father
grumbled.



"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied.


"Daddy, I have Rs.100 now. Can I buy an hour of your time?



Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with
you."



The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he
begged for his forgiveness.



It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We
should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some

time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.


Do remember to share that Rs.100 worth of your time with someone you love.


If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily
replace us in a matter of days.

But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the
rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more
into work than to our family.

hiii