Kirsten Osolind: “What’s fascinating? The number of entrepreneurs without a degree. The National Federation of Independent Business reports that only 60% of all entrepreneurs (men and women combined) have at least some college education. Only a tenth of this group (12.6%) has graduate or professional school degrees. A full 40% have but a high school degree or less. Some notable inventors and entrepreneurs who bailed on college or high school? Bill Gates (who hoisted blue-peter from Harvard during junior year), Michael Dell (who took flight from Texas), Ted Turner (expelled from Brown for having a girl in his room), Barry Diller (who sprang from UCLA), Chef Wolfgang Puck, Robert Redford, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Nathan Pritikin (Pritikin diet), Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Ray Kroc, Carl Lindler, David Murdock, Vidal Sassoon, Richard Branson, Jim Clark (founder of Netscape), Kemmons Wilson (founder of Holiday Inn), Jimmy Dean, the Wright brothers…”
Ted on October 27th, 2004 at 9:17 am
I have always worried that I am too well educated to be a successful entrepreneur. I guess this proves it.
Tima on April 17th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
nice photos of this blog