Ralph Lauren
Net worth: $7.7 billion
Ralph Lauren, owner of the Clothing company and brand “Polo” graduated from high school in the Bronx, N.Y., but later dropped out of college to join the Army, while working for the Brooks Brothers as a sales assistant for a tie company.
Ralph began creating his own design on ties, making them wider and brighter more European like, and that’s when his dream became a reality.
In 1967 Ralph Lauren’s Polo Brand begun.