Uneducated Individuals who went Big in the World of Business

In the realm of business, attaining greatness is often thought to rest on academic credentials and other acquired qualifications. Nonetheless, most people have contradicting cases, and these cases show that in as much as one needs academic qualifications, personal will power, persistence, and hard work play a bigger role. These people have not only created empires but have also motivated billions of people on this planet through their hardworking and creative journeys. Here are the five famous people who have ever lived proved that even without proper education it is possible to conquer the business world and much more.

Henry Ford 

Henry Ford, the owner of the company Ford, quit school only after reaching the age of sixteen. While performing his duties for the Detroit Edison Company, he managed to build a gas-powered automobile named the Quadricycle in a garage located at the back of his house. 
A Ford Motor Company was incorporated in the year of nineteen hundred and three, and five years later the model T was the first car that the firm produced. Due to the phenomenal success of that revolutionary vehicle, the company implemented many of the mass production techniques that Ford embraced including the construction of large plants and the use of uniform and repetitive components, so that many identical vehicles can be produced in a very short time.
In 1913, Ford exhibited the first-ever assembly line with elements in motion designed for the construction of automobiles. Ford was not only an important figure in the industrial sector but was also a forceful political figure. Ford’s views created an uproar after the start of World War I, and he was also condemned for his anti-Semitistic ideologies and publications.

“Quality is doing it Right, When no one is looking” 

Amancio Ortega
Amancio Ortega, the youngest of four children in a Spanish family, grew up in Leon. His father’s occupation as a railway worker perpetually moving from one place to the other. Thus, Amancio was forced to quit schooling at 14 years of age. The family however finally settled in La Coruna, where Amancio later on worked in a shop that made custom ordered shirts. Out of this, he resolved that he wanted to walk on his own and start a business.
In the year 1972, Amancio Ortega established Confecciones Goa and began to market bathrobes. In two years, 1975 to be precise, he and his spouse Rosalia Mera launched their first outlet, Zara. Currently, Zara is present in over 6,000 places in the world with 92,000 workers hired from every corner of the world. Ortega built his company on two pillars: what the customer wants, and do it faster than anyone else. An extremely secretive man, he even managed to remain entirely photo-free until 1999.

“The success of your business is based in principle on the idea of offering the latest fashions at low prices, in turn creating a formula for cutting costs: an integrated business in which it is manufactured, distributed and sold”

Michael Dell 
Born in 1965 to a Jewish family, Michael attended Herod Elementary School located in Houston. However, even at the tender age of 8 years, he was drawn towards the business world. His quest for business was so great that he felt he could even forgo junior high, and pass the high school equivalency examination at the age of eight. In the years of adolescence, he was already done with working for someone and rather decided to invest in the stock market as well as in gold and silver valuables. 
In the year of 1984, Dell commenced operations by establishing a firm called ‘PCs Limited’ which later became known as ‘Dell Computer Corporation.’ At twenty-seven years of age, he made history as the youngest chief executive officer in a corporate entity.
Towards the end of 1996, he initiated the selling of computers over the Internet and introduced the first ever servers into the firm. Roxas’ success even without an education was a clear endorsement that where there is a strong resolve, nothing can impede progress.

“You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream”

Dhirubhai Ambani 
Dhirubhai Ambani is a household name across India, a country that he shows deep love for, despite the fact that he did not receive formal education but was very optimistic from a tender age. After coming back from Yemen, he co-founded ‘Majin’ with his cousin, but prior to which he used to import polyester yarn as well as exported spices to Yemen. In the year of 1966, he founded the famous Reliance Industries which was able to expand fully through strong marketing strategies making its name well-known in India. The succession and legacy of Dhirubhai extends to his son's knee-deep into the family business that he fostered. However, the man passed on, and the company was split into two, one half which Mukesh Ambani held and the other half Anil Dhirubhai Ambani rested. All this, his family had received the Padma Vibhushan award, the second highest civilian award in India, one reserved for cabinet members and social activists in the country which looks quite unrelatable to Dhirubhai Ambani's contributions towards the growth of industry.
“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs”

Walt Disney 
Walt Disney, a Chicagoan by birth and was born in the year 1901, cultivated a great liking for sketching cartoons as a student, often even working in the school magazine. In the recent past, he also registered for evening lessons at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. And in 1918, he tried to enlist in the U.S. Army but was turned down. In the month of May in the year 1921, he established his very own Laugh-O-Gram Studio, where he had already commenced work on the production of ‘Alice’s Wonderland’. In 1923, Walt came to California, to be more precise to Hollywood, where together with his sibling, laid the foundation of the Disney Brothers Studio that would later be known as The Walt Disney Company. After that, he couldn’t help but experience uncontrollable positive growth, and even creating many memorable animation franchises, he managed to become one of the richest men of that era.
“If you can dream it, you can do it”
To conclude, all the above-mentioned successful people who never made education undoubtedly necessary, but it is not the only thing in the world. After some years, people won't ask for your score or how much your learning is. The only thing that would catch the exposure is your capability of what you did.