Believe it or not, it is possible to get filthy rich without spending half of your life in school. And you don't have to be on a chest-baring reality show to do it. These wildly successful people did it, all without setting foot in grad school. Many of them never even earned an undergraduate degree. If you've got enough brains, you're willing to take risks, and you're just a tad cocky, consider following in their footsteps before you shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for that pretty piece of paper.
Here are 8 all-star entrepreneurs who didn't bother with a Master's degree:
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Of course, no education may ever be able to teach the trait of risk-taking.
However, there are instances galore of many businessmen who have done equally well even as they are 'highly qualified'
That makes out a case for qualities required for starting-up a new business, and managing it 'successfully'. These qualities can be ingrained or acquired. Education is the source of light that can make things clearly visible, but if you still want to collide, can it be helped?
Not to worry there's hope for them: most are not lawyers.
In the case of Bill Gates, it helped that his dad was a multimillionaire venture capitalist who saw a good thing at backed it to the hilt. In the case of Paul Allen, it helped to be pals with Bill Gates.
If Zuckerberg wasn't aiming high in his education, he never would have been "just another Harvard nobody" when he found the talent, the peer group, the opportunities and the idea (!) to put together Facebook.
Entering into start-up is frought w/risk. And no-one pats you on the back or gives you a jobs just because you worked hard and a smart. Thats the very real part of the risk. And in this economy, its hard to get a job in your 30's since whether it was your fault or not, people will look at failure ina start-up as a failure for the founders. Not saying don't go for it, but one should not fool themselves that there is not a whole lot of lick involved. Just sayin....
And so what does it prove? Nothing more than what you see. There will always be people who happen to be statistical outliers in some very narrow range of human measurement. Bill Gates is not remarkable for his physicality. If we were still a warrior society, Bill Gates wouldn't be fit to carry Alexander's sword. Of course, any Alexander born today winds up on UFC instead of leading a conquering army. It's all about what very narrow range of human measurement is valued at the time. In Alexander's time, personal military power mattered. Today, it's money that matters, so Gates is the truly powerful man instead of one of those UFC guys.