8 billionaires who attended public schools

Many believe that the basis for success and good income in the future lays an exclusive education in private schools and prestigious colleges. Often this is true, but there are several examples that show that even after completing a regular public school, you can succeed in life and build a billionth state.

Photo: twitter / Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos

Edition CNBC compiled a list of self-made billionaires who attended the most ordinary public schools.

Warren Buffett

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• Condition: 84 billion dollars
• Education: public school and college

Buffett spent most of his childhood and teenage years in Washington, DC, where his father was a Republican congressman.

He studied at Alice Deal Middle School, where has already started making money selling chewing gum and Coca-Cola. In the mornings before class, he delivered newspapers to earn his pocket money. He continued to carry out this work after being transferred to Woodrow wilson high schoolwhich he graduated in 1947 year.

At 17, Buffett didn't want to go to college: “What was the point? I knew what I wanted to do. I earned enough money to live on. College could only slow me down,” he said.

Nevertheless, he attended classes at Wharton to reassure his father, but Buffet was bored there. He transferred to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and graduated in 1950.

Charlie munger

• Condition: 1,68 billion dollars
• Education: public school and college

Buffett's business partner and vice chairman Berkshire Hathaway Charlie Munger graduated Omaha Central High School, where he was a member of many circles and clubs. He studied at the University of Michigan, and then transferred to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a diploma of which he received in the end.

Oprah Winfrey

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• Condition: 3 billion dollars
• Education: public school and college

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey in her youth and childhood moved several times, so she attended several schools, but all of them were state-run. Most of all, she excelled in East Nashville High School, there Winfrey was on the list of top students and worked in the student government. At 17 for years, she won the Miss Tennessee beauty contest among African-American women, and she was invited to work part-time at a local radio station, WVOL.

After graduating from school in 1971, Winfrey entered the University of Tennessee for a full scholarship.

Steve Jobs

• Condition: 20,1 billion dollars
• Education: public school

Late co-founder Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), Steve Jobs graduated from high school Homestead in Cupertino, California, in 1972 year. His future business partner, co-founder Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, Steve Wozniak, graduated from the same school a few years before. Jobs was not the best student in school, and besides, he did not finish his studies at Reed’s private college, leaving him alone and without receiving a diploma.

Jeff Bezos

• Condition: 138,8 billion dollars
• Education: Public School, Princeton University

Director General Amazon and richest man on the planet Jeff Bezos graduated from school Palmetto Senior High in Miami in 1982 year, where he was a round high achiever.

In 1986, Bezos graduated from Princeton Private University.

Sarah Blakely

• Condition: 1,11 billion. USA
• Education: public school, college

Founder Spanx Sarah Blakely graduated from high school. Clearwater in his home state of Florida. As a teenage entrepreneur, she earned money as a babysitter on the beach while her parents sunbathed nearby. Blakely also studied at the University of Florida. In 2012, she became the youngest self-made female billionaire Forbes.

Larry Page

• Condition: 52,2 billion dollars
• Education: public school, college

Larry Page, co-founder Google and chief executive officer Agraduated from high school East lansing in 1991 year and continued studying electrical engineering at the University of Michigan.

His parents studied, and then worked in the field of computer science, but, according to him, they never assented to him in this direction, and he consciously chose the field of IT for himself.

Meg Whitman

• Condition: 3,4 billion dollars
• Education: Public School, Princeton University

Meg Whitman, former CEO HP and eBaygrew up on Long Island in New York. In 1974, she graduated from high school Cold spring harborwhere he had a good performance and played field hockey, tennis and basketball. She graduated from private Princeton University and became the only woman to lead two large state-owned companies in the United States.

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