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from high school became his lifetime financial partner. (from Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein by Steven Gaines and Sharon Churcher).

Ted Turner is an amazing billionaire college dropout. He attended Brown University and was actually expelled for having a girl come to his room.

Sometimes college dropouts are actually expelled. Perhaps this type of life-change provides the motivation for achievement. As Nevitt Sanford a psychologist at Stanford states, "Leaving college may leave a student with a sense of unfinished business that will, in some cases, provide motivation for learning for the rest of his life."

(There is also a rumor that Bill Gates was actually expelled from Harvard for using computers illegally. (www.pennylicious.com/2006/10/ 09/billionaire-dropouts).

Ted Turner founded Cable News Network (CNN), Turner Classic Movies (TCM), and Turner Network Television (TNT), which all grew out of Turner Broadcasting. (Turner Broadcasting merged with Time-Warner which merged with America Online (AOL). (www.answers.com/topic/ted-tur ner?cat=biz-fin)

Ted Turner is currently philanthropically involved with the Turner Foundation, the United Nations Foundation, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Captain Planet Foundation, and the Turner Endangered Species Fund. (www.tedturner.com/enterprises /home.asp).

He also owns the Atlantic Hawks Basketball team and the Atlanta Braves Baseball team; and farms bison in Montana where he owns and is actively involved in Ted's Montana Grill.

He married the famous film star, Jane Fonda.

There are many other famous and successful businessmen college dropouts who could be added to this list, but I believe I have listed the most famous.

There are also high school and elementary school dropouts such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison who were also successful businessmen.

To read about other famous college dropout businessmen go to (www.pennylicious.com/2006/10/ 09/billionaire-dropouts/)

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