Top 20 Successful People Who Never Graduated College

12. Leonardo Del Vecchio – $22.3 billion

Leonardo Del Vecchio is the founder and current chairman of Luxottica. The firm is the owner of both Sunglass Hut and Lenscrafters chains with over 6,000 stores. He is the richest man in Italy. As a child, he was given up to an orphanage because his mother could not care for him. He started his career as an apprentice to a tool- and die-maker, and later turned his metalworking skills to making spectacle parts. He then formed Luxottica.