Sir Richard Branson

Sir Branson is an English business magnate and the founder of Virgin Group. He dropped out of school at sixteen after suffering from dyslexia and receiving poor academic results. Branson is worth $4.2 billion.

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Successful school dropouts

Think your future depends on your school grades? Think again. As these celebrity dropouts have shown, failing at school certainly doesn't mean failing at life.

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