Top 20 Successful People Who Never Graduated College

5. Liliane Bettencourt – $42.3 billion

Lilliane Bettencourt is the only child of Eugene Schueller, the founder of L’Oreal. When Liliane was 15, she joined her father’s company as an apprentice. She started out mixing cosmetics and labeling shampoo bottles. She inherited the company when her father died in 1957. She took the company public in 1963, but retained majority stake. She turned half her stake into stock in Nestle in 1974.