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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mynamespat, post: 8097000, member: 83738&quot;]edit: repetitive deleted</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure if you have me mixed up with another poster from above, or what facts you want me to provide.&nbsp; It is the creators of those companies themselves who dropped out of college and proceeded to earn billions of dollars: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Taylor, and Larry Ellison respectively.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not personally of the opinion that a college degree is a a requirement for greatness, nor is it a condemnation to failure to not obtain one.&nbsp; It can be a useful tool which helps open doors in life.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was simply not certain why Goldfinger decided to attack basketball players since some of them can succeed without an extended education (besides the fact that many professional athletes do get their degrees before going pro).&nbsp; I can only imagine there is a bit of hidden bias lying latent.&nbsp; There are plenty of examples of people from all walks of life, in a variety of professions, who are extremely successful without completing college.&nbsp; There are plenty of people with college degrees who fail for whatever reasons be it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Becoming a professional athlete not only takes a tremendous amount of natural talent, it requires more dedication than the average person is willing to commit.&nbsp; I really don&#039;t see much difference between them and business founders.&nbsp; They all have made tremendous sacrifices directing all their energy towards one specific goal which may never come to fruition.&nbsp; For every top level professional athlete there are dozens of modestly paid professionals, and far more who never get to the big game at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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