The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.
Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!
My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire.
I don't know any real billionaires.
I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.