Top 5 Richest Americans are...

[anthony240]

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/54/biz_06rich400_The-400-Richest-Americans_Rank.html

SELF-MADE! And 4 are college dropouts!

Billions of dollars from humble beginnings, what an inspiration!

I just been feeling depressed lately since i've been stuck at a dead end jobs for a while.

[ALTRNTV]

1) Bill Gates
$53 billion
Microsoft

2) Warren Buffet
$46 billion
Berkshire Hathaway

3) Sheldon Adelson
$20.5 billion
casinos, hotels

4) Lawrence Ellison
$19.5 billion
Oracle

5) Paul Allen
$16 billion
Microsoft, investments

[frankist]

so the top four, are college drop outs?

[A Spec Products]

Too bad that's not an excuse to not go to college.

College these days is the high school equivalent of the previous generation.

I'll be the first to agree a college degree doesn't equate success, but it definitely starts you off with a better footing in the working world.

Plus it gives you an extra couple years to fool around before hitting reality.

Just find something you love doing, cause money will come as long as you keep your eyes open and put passion into your work.

Except when you sell car parts to 240sx owners. Do anything but that.

[SiI40sx]

fuckin walmart..... wow at rentacar

[Phlip]

Look at that Wal Mart money, if Sam Walton hadn't died in 1992, he'd be at the top of that list, his money makes up 77.7 billion on that damned list, that is CRAZY

[allblackS14]

Except when you sell car parts to 240sx owners. Do anything but that.


Amen to that, CHEAP BASTARDS...myself included in that group:duh:

[Gnnr]

so the top four, are college drop outs?

Yeah, but Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard not Little Rock Community College, lol. Not that I'm hating on LRCC if anyone goes there. :ugh:

[Yuri]

Except when you sell car parts to 240sx owners. Do anything but that.
well, anything but that and selling parts to AE86 owners...

[imotion s14]

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/54/biz_06rich400_The-400-Richest-Americans_Rank.html

SELF-MADE! And 4 are college dropouts!

Billions of dollars from humble beginnings, what an inspiration!

I just been feeling depressed lately since i've been stuck at a dead end jobs for a while.

"Humble" to me means working class. Bill Gate's parents were wealthy, his dad was a lawyer and his mother was a bank director. Warren Buffet's dad was a US Representative and a businessman. Paul Allen's father was a director at the University of Washington.

They didn't just drop out of college to sit around playing Xbox360, these guys had talents that normal people just don't have. Luck also had a part in it I would think.

[exitspeed]

Hmm, I thought Russell Simmons was worth somewere in the billions. I didn't see him on there.

[HyperTek]

Too bad that's not an excuse to not go to college.

College these days is the high school equivalent of the previous generation.


haha pretty clever.. but true.. in socal i see this everyday.. esp some of my friends thinking they dont need college, are probably gonna get stuck with low income. They may pay good now for thier age, but deffinitly gonna get stuck.

[drftwerks]

well, anything but that and selling parts to AE86 owners...


hahah, i would have to disagree with you nissan owners have by far been the cheapest people i have sold parts too, most of the ae86 owners that have owned thier car for more than 1 year are good about money.

[atom]

Billionaire college dropouts: Smart enough to realize they don't need college.

Every other dropout: Too stupid to realize they need college.

[kouki_s14]

Hmm, I thought Russell Simmons was worth somewere in the billions. I didn't see him on there.

hes worth 500 mill
well that was before his divorce
anyone have an idea what hes worth now?

[lucky7]

ive met roger penske before. he is 140 on the list. 2.2 bil.........

i used to tow his airplanes around and fuel them.
my old Ek infront of penske team racing gulfstream.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/danerm3/DSC00031.jpg

also met the taubman sons many a times. didnt see them on the list, but i know for a fact their corp is worth over 2 billion. drove his SL600 (Bi-turbo V12) to the gas station and the car wash almost every weekend. in the winter, it was his cayenne turbo... that bitch also moves.

that job was a reality check... some of the older folks were nice and generous tippers (the big ballers). but some of their kids are in dire need of a severe ass beating ASAP. you can certainly tell who was born with a platinum spork in their mouf, as opposed to the self-made people.

[Buffalo Daughter]

i havent met the guy but i've seen him in person. i work for him, well er his company. He was at capitol honda umm i think 4 weeks ago. Had a bunch of suits with him. he owns like 30 odd something dealerships on the west coast including the shipping trucks, his racing team etc, etc. Mad rich. You know what they say,

a guy who has millions is rich .
a guy who is wealthy signs the checks. These doods like penske are mad wealthy.

I honestly give props to jay-z for being hood rich to what is now 303 million dollars rich, ahem wealthy??

[Omarius Maximus]

College usually teaches you a trade. In other words, after getting out of college, your no better than the guy at walmart pushing carts, because your selling your labor, albeit for more money and less physical work. Ultimately, the people who are rich and college drop outs were intelligent enough to invest their meager earnings on lucrative enterprises or assets or whatever whereas other people in their position spend all of their capital on car parts and such haha

[1Via!]

The moral of the story isn't to drop out of college, its that to be rich you OWN.
So stay in school, get that MBA, and open B Spec Products. :D:D
(You get the point.)