Traditional education is not
that important as many people think. The statistics gives us a totally
different view on formal education. According to Forbes, 20% of American millionaires
haven’t taken even one university class and 21 of 222 billionaires (in 2003) have no university degree. (by the way, 2 of
them didn’t even finish school !).
Larry Elison ($39,5 billion), the founder of
Oracle dropped out the University of Illinois.
Bill Gates ($56 billion) dropped
out Harvard, and later founded Microsoft.
So did Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
(founders of Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), David Karp (Tumblr) and many
many other successful people. They just realized that their ideas have no time
to wait until they’ll finish formal education in order to pursue their dreams.
Many athletes, musicians, politicians, the greatest pioneers of technology have
left education and started creating things they had passion for.
What about you ?
Are you afraid of leaving college, or maybe to study part-time, in order to follow your dreams and to create something really extraordinary?
These stories of success are reffering to you. Yes, you, the person that’s
reading this right now.
If you have a great idea to
create, something really unique and valuable, don’t wait to finish your education.
Do it right now. Don’t wait. Just go for it.
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