Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Henry Ford, Milton Hershey,Jay-Z, Simon Cowell.George Foreman, Ray Charles, Jack London, Debbi Fields, Carl Lindner, Mary Kay Ash, Ted Turner.............
While the names above is by no means a complete list, they all have one thing in common.
They are all school drop outs, some dropping out as early as 4rth grade, others dropping out of high school and a couple with no education at all. Milton Hershey had nothing more than a 4rth grade education. Yet all went on to become successful Millionaires and household names.
Does going on to college to get a good education in order to get a good job still apply today or is it simply how we have been brainwashed to believe in order to spend more money. Does this simply mean a higher level of broke?
Does education lead one to financial freedom or does it lead to a financial lock down of being a slave to the almighty dollar while being told what to do, when to be there and how much one is worth?
What determines success, what leads to financial freedom? I mean the type of freedom where you have ongoing money coming in regardless of where you are and what you are doing? Not having to wait until you are 68 or 70 to start living after you worked the best years of your life away?
Is getting a good education in order to get a good job a myth that we have been led to believe in simply so there is a higher level of consumerism and money flowing in the direction of Wall Street, Banks, IRS ?????
Do you think all these millionaire drops outs simply get lucky? I don't think so, I think they had a large ability to think beyond the box of beliefs so many are spoon fed and simply follow along believing in the dogma they want us to believe in. I think they stopped to question what leads people to spend the way they do, earn the way they do, live the way they do. A fire was lit within them some see as being self starters or ambitious.
While I am not knocking college, there certainly is other ways to learn and gain an education without starting off with a huge debt over your head.
The ability to think out of the box of normal standards of thought though, I think can take you quite far on a path to financial freedom.
What do you think are key factors to financial success? Do you believe a higher education plays into the equation at all?
While the names above is by no means a complete list, they all have one thing in common.
They are all school drop outs, some dropping out as early as 4rth grade, others dropping out of high school and a couple with no education at all. Milton Hershey had nothing more than a 4rth grade education. Yet all went on to become successful Millionaires and household names.
Does going on to college to get a good education in order to get a good job still apply today or is it simply how we have been brainwashed to believe in order to spend more money. Does this simply mean a higher level of broke?
Does education lead one to financial freedom or does it lead to a financial lock down of being a slave to the almighty dollar while being told what to do, when to be there and how much one is worth?
What determines success, what leads to financial freedom? I mean the type of freedom where you have ongoing money coming in regardless of where you are and what you are doing? Not having to wait until you are 68 or 70 to start living after you worked the best years of your life away?
Is getting a good education in order to get a good job a myth that we have been led to believe in simply so there is a higher level of consumerism and money flowing in the direction of Wall Street, Banks, IRS ?????
Do you think all these millionaire drops outs simply get lucky? I don't think so, I think they had a large ability to think beyond the box of beliefs so many are spoon fed and simply follow along believing in the dogma they want us to believe in. I think they stopped to question what leads people to spend the way they do, earn the way they do, live the way they do. A fire was lit within them some see as being self starters or ambitious.
While I am not knocking college, there certainly is other ways to learn and gain an education without starting off with a huge debt over your head.
The ability to think out of the box of normal standards of thought though, I think can take you quite far on a path to financial freedom.
What do you think are key factors to financial success? Do you believe a higher education plays into the equation at all?
I think that if you are going to be in business for yourself, be your own start-up company, draw pictures of mickey and dream up theme parks, have your head pounded in and pound in the heads of others then smile on t.v. and sell non stick grills there really is no school for that.
ReplyDeleteIf you want a job in healthcare, engineering, IT, law, research, anything in the trades or something that as a rule is not your own company you must have an education.
That being said I have a cousin with Gr 12 education who by hard work, common sense and charm makes well into the 6 figures. He works for a company but started literally as a grunt and is now a successful businessman in oil.
Everyone has a different number of what is "enough" money. Rich has a different meaning to everyone. Somewhere in there a person has to find comfort, contentment and happiness.
I think that an education is a leg up on success, not a guarantee, but a help.
Thanks for replying with your perspective :)
DeleteThere may be no school for these entrepenuers but for certain what they learned outside of a classroom, was far more important to their success.
Financial Freedom is quite different than working towards wealth and the number one needs to have financial freedome would depend on the lifestyle, for some this would be a relativly small number a month.As long as one works for another, they will never be free and for some this may be okay.
Happiness, love, joy, gratitude, generosity....these are all things that should be there regardless of income, working for others or self-employed. These should be the ultimate goals first and foremost.
Good for your cousin sounds like he worked hard and was given what he really deserved!
In some proffesions an education and degree is a must however unless you are will to work you will get nowhere fast. We made sure all of our DD's went to college but without debt! Two of our girls are in the proffesion they went to school for the other went into a diffrent line of work and is making more than if she would have used her degree. For us it wasn't about how much money our girls could make with an education under their belts it was more for the knowledge and experiance they would get, money well spent but it took lots of saving to get it done
ReplyDeleteAs a parent of kids I know that I don't hold the same view as my parents did in that a 4 year degree is necessary. It's basic supply and demand function: as the number of degree holders goes up the degrees become less valuable. It's starting to become cost prohibitive to just "go get a degree" like I did in the 90s.
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