He had to quit school a few years later when he was just 15-years-old after his father died of tuberculosis.
Most of the credit goes to my Dad, the seventh grade dropout who quit school to work at the sawmill.
Anzor's brother, Ruslan Tsarni, told the AP from his home in Maryland that he believed his former sister-in-law had a "big-time influence" on her older son's growing embrace of his Muslim faith and decision to quit boxing and school.
When Zuckerberg and Moskovitz quit school to relocate to California, Saverin stayed behind to graduate.
Her mood swings eventually became so wild the former honors student had to quit going to high school.
The son of a fishing trawler captain who quit school to race motorcycles, Bernie Ecclestone built his fortune from auto sales, property and the transformation of Formula 1 into one of the world's most popular sports.
Smith, 53, quit business school to join as a rookie in 1986.
But Chandra, who quit high school to help out with his family's rice trading business, is not one to give up.
Many of them were young and had quit school in order to follow their dreams, but they were also smart and ambitious.
Tantalized by genomics, Mr. Zhao quit school and began to work full-time at BGI, one of the biggest genomics research centers in the world.
Carmack grew up playing with computers in a suburb of Kansas City (he was sent to a juvenile home at 14 after breaking into a school to steal an Apple II) and quit college early to become a game programmer.
When the Braves cut him last year, Sanchez promptly quit baseball and went back to school.
One added that his teenage son had just quit his after-school activities to save his family money.
He quit school at fifteen, and went to work writing for a local newspaper.
When Lucho turned 11 he quit school and hawked magazines and sold rags to metal polishers.
Instead, these students see a revolving door of new teachers that creates unstable school communities and sends the message that it is acceptable to quit.
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Lemieux, who quit school in Montreal after the tenth grade, never learned how to read balance sheets.
Arnoud De Meyer quit his job as director of the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School last year to become president of the Singapore Management University.
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