Wise Uncle Ben

I came across a very motivating article over at Cultivate GREATNESS. The posting lists many successful entrepreneurs who do not have a college degree.

Education has many benefits beyond the technical competence to start a business, but not having a degree should not be an excuse to put your dreams on hold. On the other hand, if you already have a degree or two, you have one less excuse for not pursing your dreams. What’s holding you back?

How many times were you told to make sure you worked hard in high school so you could go to college and get a good career job? Okay, maybe not all of you got nagged about it, but probably a good portion of today’s generation of adults did.

It’s natural to wonder whether college is really necessary. A college degree, as many have found, is no guarantee of a good career. On the flipside, there are many successful entrepreneurs who didn’t need their college education and become millionaires anyway. Here are fifteen of them, both contemporary and from the past, in alphabetical order.

15 Successful Entrepreneurs Who Didnt Need College