Who Needs College? 7 Core Success Skills of “Self-Educated” Billionaires

who needs college? everyone who's not a self-educated billionaire ...

It is important to recognize that the West in general defines success in dollars. If you love to dance, would you call yourself a success only if you were the wealthiest dancer? How about the wealthiest author? If you go to school for chemistry and you want to be wealthy, good luck. You should go to school to be the best chemist. If you want wealth, go to B-school, risk other people's money and hire a chemist. Success or fail, do it again. Solve problems, give away your money before you die.

Luck was the main ingredient of success for most of these people. A lot of luck.

that may be true and probable but college students are challenged by professors who push them and encourage them into critical thinking they never would have taken on by thenselves
or even considered college is a stepping stone to young adult hood it offers a different kind of networking that reflects power fraternities and sorrorities have just like corporate america has that is where some of our great leaders are first nourished, there is so much to learn that learning it on your own is really dificult we need the people that challenge us for example two candidates running for political office one notes questions that her training has taught her to inquire about certain things that might otherwise embarass her opponent but if she had not looked into the situation certain relevant information might not have been discovered and costly mistakes might have been made thus in reality she afforeded a lot of people to keep their dignity in tact that is what education does yes you can be succesful without it but where do you find the people the challenge you to rise above the status quo.

every one dances to a different tune. everyone thinks their music is best. one has to grin and bear it!
I studied psych and sociology went into building and land development. you never know where your happy if you stick to dad and moms dream for you!

There is a difference between going to college and getting educated. Getting an education is never a waste of time.

Of course, you never hear of the millions of people who don't go to college and who aren't successful.

How apropos to the times. Just as important as what's on the list is what's NOT on the list:

Lack of accountability & responsibility
An overdeveloped sense of entitlement
Spending habits that sacrifice long-term goals for short-term wants
Lack of direction & drive
Unwillingness to work hard and make trade-offs

Love his insight about networking. Meet and give - not meet and ask. So true.

My old and wise college professor gave me his version of a truly educated person years ago.

1. Ability to entertain ones self
2. Ability to entertain a new idea
3. Ability to entertain a friend

I try not to forget this on a daily basis as my life plays out.

many studies have shown that emotional intelligence/personality get's you farther than IQ..of course it doesn't hurt to have both as these billionaires have shown...I attended grad school, and I don't have the amount of wealth or success these guys have (frankly, measured against these guys I'm an idiot and a total failure LOL)...college just dumps way too much knowledge on the students...the key ingredients of success are ignored and academic subjects get too much attention......

There are a very few special people who will rise to success whether or not they go to college. It takes the right combination of above-average intelligence, motivation and an enabling personality. The probability of all these traits coming together in one individual is low. So most of us are average and no one will remember us after we are in the cemetery.

College. Forget about college. To depend on college in today's world is a primary reason why we are no longer self dependent in the U.S.A. We used to be strong manufacturers and tradesmen, neither of which require higher education. They require experience. However, we now rely on higher education which deters from being independent in other trades. Things like carpenters, roofers, masons, and mechanics all used to be proud trades by Americans. Now they are just cheap labor trades by immigrants. Experience in lieu of education isn't a bad thing...

they are the exception not the rule. The educated always make more and do better than the uneducated, to point out the one person in ten million that makes it on their own and hold that person up as a role model to avoid education is simply wrong.

Gifted people don't need college, it doesn't mean that it's a wise choice for most people. In basketball terms, not every player is KG or Lebron; most should go to college. Same goes for business. Don't generalize from a-typical cases.

I think higher education has actually suffered as more and more employers have come to require it as a matter of course when recruiting new people. Originally, college was primarily meant for the wealthy so they could broaden their horizons and become gentlemen. (And the intent was more to teach them to think, NOT to give them the belief that they know everything in any given field.) They didn’t need it to get a job - it was strictly for personal fulfillment, and their learning was completely unaffected by the pressures and concerns of earning a living later on. How many college students have you known who really couldn’t care less about learning any more than they already knew – they just wanted that SHEEPSKIN so they could get an easy, high-paying job?

How to get rich. Get very very very very lucky and work hard.
How to make a reasonable living. Get an education in something useful, work hard and get along with people.

Bah, grumble, grumble... kids these days. When I was young I went out and worked... now I just complain on Yahoo.

Now that we've been educated on how to become an unschooled billionaire, how about a series on How to Be a Successful Human Being. It would seem that those in Congress, and those in "Big Business" know nothing about that! If we are to have a successful nation, our humanity should be more important than the size of our estate! You can't take your money with you and then, it's gone, but you reputation remains!

Absolute insanity ! As you learn in college, the bell curve of people has fringes at both ends that don't need an education (they are too smart or too dumb). The rest need to go to college to complete and have a decent life. Unless we want to keep importing foreigners with educations to do our technical and professional jobs, then we better get educated. You don't have to go to Harvard to get a good education.