A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.

Amy Jackson
Amy Jackson

My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.

Anna Pump
Anna Pump

I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.

Bernard Beckett
Bernard Beckett

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

Chip Gaines
Chip Gaines

When I was supposed to go to a certified kindergarten that's supposed to teach you actual things like how to read, I went to a daycare that my parents thought was a kindergarten. I was Crayola-ing inside the lines with no fundamental education at all. So I walked into the first grade with no formal education at all.

Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan

My father had very little formal education.

Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliffe

I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

Dennis Quaid
Dennis Quaid

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.