Here's some inspiration

[YouDidWhat]

The Forbes 400 came out and you see them now, but never really think about them before. The crazy thing is, they've always been like that

Michael Dell

At age 12 he enters the business world with his own stamp auction. In order to bypass the traditional auctioneers and earn a bigger commission he convinces a bunch of his neighbors to consign their stamps to him, and advertises “Dell’s Stamps” in Linn’s Stamp Journal. He then types a 12 page catalogue with one finger and mails it out. He earns $2,000 at age 12, in 1977. Here comes Michael Dell.

At age 16 he lands a job selling subscriptions to The Houston Post. Every month he gets a list of people to cold call and comes to the realization that the two kinds of people that almost always want to buy are those that are recently married or just moved into a new apartment or house. He hires a bunch of his college buddies to canvass mortgage and marriage license lists, draws up a personalized letter, and earns $18,000 in a year; more than most of his teachers. By graduation, he is driving a BMW.

At age 18 he bought computer components from IBM dealers, and selling them 15%-20% cheaper. Eventually he sold IBM clones under the name PC Limited and by avoiding retail markup, and once again cutting out the middleman, he could sell PCs at about 40% the price of IBM. He took leave of absence from college, and with a $1000 investment borrowed from family he moved into a condo and sold $80,000 worth of computers during the second semester of his freshmen year. And to think there were those that laughed when he said he would one day overtake IBM…

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[breatheeasy17]

nice site. you need to fix the WAY bottom though. After it says Created by Dan Cameron, photo by... html shows up instead of a link. Minor detail but I am pointing it out to you so you can fix it.

[YouDidWhat]

Easy-

Forgot a ". Fixed.
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[E320]

Also Just noticed that all of the top self-made billionaires are college drop-outs ( with an exeption of Warren Edward Buffett ).

#1 William Henry Gates III
Net Worth $53.0 billion
Education Harvard University, Drop Out

#3 Sheldon Adelson
Net Worth $20.5 billion
Education City College of New York, Drop Out

#4 Lawrence Joseph Ellison
Net Worth $19.5 billion
Education University of Illinois, Drop Out

#5 Paul Gardner Allen
Net Worth $16.0 billion
Education Washington State University, Drop Out

#9 Michael Dell
Net Worth $15.5 billion
Education University of Texas Austin, Drop Out

#14 Jack Crawford Taylor & family
Net Worth $13.9 billion
Education Washington University, Drop Out

[MsNadi]

We just posted some inspiration on our blog from steve jobs (and his Stanford commencement speach).

[MsNadi]

Steve Jobs, who's also a college drop out.

[YouDidWhat]

BLATANT "CHECK OUT MY BLOG", but the speech was interesting. Next time just post the article.