The Pennsylvania school is also the first to have one of i ts students arrested, after he failed to return his iPad and MacBook after quitting school early.

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Tell my mom I'm quitting high school to become an entrepreneur: Priceless.

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Tom Dixon, 46, who taught himself how to weld metal furniture after quitting art school, was selected for his new furniture and lighting designs.

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The most famous billionaire dropout is Microsoft's Bill Gates, who finally got his honorary degree from Harvard University in June, 30 years after quitting the prestigious school to sell software.

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Suzy, born to privilege and clearly destined to be a highflier, lost altitude by quitting her boarding school at 16 and going to Paris, where she worked for a while as a secretary.

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At that time, after quitting weightlifting, my high school PE teacher recommended the students to play golf.

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Tsang Yok Sing, who heads the main pro-Beijing political group, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), announced last week that he was quitting his job as a school principal to devote full time to readying his party for the election.

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When I was thinking about quitting my job to launch CircleUp, I spoke with a ton of fellow Stanford business school classmates who graduated with me in 2005.

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