3.Sheldon Adelson – $37.1 billion
Sheldon Adelson is in our top 3 richest drop out billionaires.
Net worth: $37.1 billion
Profession: Chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation & owner of the Israeli daily newspaper Israel HaYom & founder the Adelson Foundation
Fact: At 12, he borrowed $200 from his uncle to start selling newspapers.
After selling newspapers, Sheldon Adelson entered a candy-vending machine business at 16. He attended the City College of New York to become a court reporter, but he joined the army after two years and dropped out.
After several jobs, he started the charter-tour business that brought him his first millions. Even though he lost and remade his fortune twice, he was declared the eighth richest person in the world in 2014.
He founded a trade show for Comdex, and later on he and his business partner bought Sands Casino.
Entrepreneurship is essentially identifying the path that everyone takes; and choosing a different, better way.
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