Education is necessary no matter what you think. And before you use this as inspiration to throw everything away and be on your way to become the next billionaire, know that the road to success is paved with obstacles and hard work.

Bloomberg has a list of self-made billionaires and found that a quarter of them were college dropouts.

This guy is definitely on this list.

And so is this guy.

Here's the list:

- Sheldon Adelson dropped out of City College of New York ($36.4 billion)
- Paul Allen dropped out of Washington State ($16.2 billion)
- Andy Beal dropped out of Baylor University ($11.1 billion)
- Michael Dell dropped out of University of Texas ($15.3 billion)
- Larry Ellison dropped out of University of Chicago ($52 billion)
- Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard ($81.6 billion)
- Jan Koum dropped out of San Jose State University ($7.5 billion)
- Thomas Peterffy dropped out of an unspecified university ($6.4 billion)
- Jack Taylor dropped out of Washington University ($11.4 billion)
- Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard ($33.1 billion)