Category: Business
Created by: rufaro9102
Number of Blossarys: 41
English (EN) 
Despite holding two honorary doctorates from London universities, Sir Alan Sugar didn't go to univeristy. Hackney-born Sir Alan, 67, started a business selling electrical knickknacks from a van, ...
Phones4U founder and communications magnate John Caudwell, 61, abandoned his A-level study at a school in Stoke-on-Trent and started an apprenticeship at a tyre factory before moving on to selling ...
Diamond magnate Laurence Graff, 76, made his billions supplying jewellery and jewels to wealthy overseas customers, having started out as a 15-year-old apprentice at a Hatton Garden jewellery ...
Sports tycoon Mike Ashley, 49, left grammar school at 16 to play county level squash, but an injury turned him from athlete to businessman. The Sports Direct founder and Newcastle United owner set up ...
Sir Philip Green founded the germ of his fashion empire while in his teens. As an O-level school leaver he began importing jeans from Asia to sell in London. Throughout the 1970s, Sir Philip began ...
Virgin media founder Sir Richard Branson, 64, was a dyslexic schoolboy from Buckinghamshire until he started his own business aged 16. He began selling records through his magazine ironically called ...
