Chapter 21 SynTao 20 School Education Cannot Become a Billionaire

The Essence of Business: The real education, the education worth investing in, is the education that develops and cultivates your thinking ability.A person's level of education depends on how much his brain has been developed and his thinking ability.But being rich is not something that can be accomplished by a paper diploma. As long as you exercise your brain and thinking ability all the time, you can become a billionaire even if you don’t have much advanced school education.On the contrary, if you only memorize knowledge by rote without developing your own brain, even if you are a doctoral student, you can only suffer poorly.

In real life, people often think that: "As long as you study well, you will have wealth." Is this conclusion correct?Before answering, let's look at such a survey. According to the results of a survey of multimillionaires in 15 provinces and cities in China by relevant departments: 310 people with a master's degree or above, accounting for 3.1%; 2420 people with a bachelor's degree, accounting for 24.6%; 2503 people with a junior college degree, accounting for 25.4%; 2230 people in high school, accounting for 22.6%, 1201 people in junior high school, accounting for 12.2%; There are 1,026 specialized students, accounting for 10.4%; 172 primary school students, accounting for 1.7%.

According to the survey results, the education level of China's multi-millionaires is concentrated in middle school, junior college, and undergraduate.It can be seen that the key to becoming a rich man does not lie in the level of education. And when we turn our attention to the society, we will find that there are millions of college graduates, tens of thousands of master's and doctoral students in China every year. Have they all become billionaires?Obviously not, so we can definitely say that the statement at the beginning is wrong, school education alone cannot become a billionaire.

In 1973, a young man named Colette from Liverpool, England was admitted to Harvard University in the United States, and he often sat with him to attend lectures, an 18-year-old American boy.In his sophomore year of university, the young man discussed with Colette and dropped out of school together to develop 32Bit financial software, because the problem of the conversion of the base system path has been solved in the newly compiled textbook.At that time, Colette was very surprised, because he came here to study, not to play around.Besides, for the Bit system, Professor Moers has only taught a little bit. It is impossible to develop Bit financial software without completing all the courses of the university.He politely declined the young man's invitation.

Ten years later, Colette became a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Harvard University, and the young man who dropped out also entered the US "Forbes" magazine's billionaire list this year. In 1992, Colette continued to study for a postdoctoral fellow; the personal assets of the American boy reached 6.5 billion US dollars in this year, second only to Wall Street tycoon Buffett, becoming the second richest man in the United States. In 1995, Colette thought that he had enough knowledge to research and develop 32Bit financial software, and that young man had bypassed the Bit system and developed Eip financial software, which was 1500 times faster than Bit, and within two weeks Occupying the global market, he became the richest man in the world this year.A name that represents success and wealth—Bill Gates has also spread to every corner of the world.This is the amazing Bill Gates.

In this world, everyone has their own choices, but most successful people have the same spirit of hard work and creativity in their journeys to achieve today's success.We can't help thinking that from elementary school to university or even a doctorate, the ultimate goal of learning is to be able to understand the society and lay a solid foundation for realizing one's own value.In the past, many people believed that undergraduates, postgraduates, masters, and Ph.D. students could become billionaires as long as they possessed fine-grained professional knowledge.We don’t have to argue about the right or wrong of this statement, but looking at the world’s famous people, academic qualifications are not directly proportional to achievements. Bill Gates went to start a business before graduating from Harvard University. If he waited until he had learned all the knowledge before starting Microsoft, he would still Will he become the richest man in the world?

There is a rich man in Wenzhou who came out of a poor village to work in the 1980s. He only had a primary school education and hadn’t attended school for a few days. After 20 years, he has assets of hundreds of millions of yuan, creating a myth of the times. In 1985, at the age of 26, he embarked on a train to Urumqi with 50 yuan borrowed from relatives and friends, and started his magical entrepreneurial journey.When he walked out of the gate of Urumqi Railway Station, all the belongings of this man were only 2 yuan and an old quilt used in the army.Under the introduction of a fellow villager, he knew construction knowledge and became the monitor of the construction site, with a daily salary of 5 yuan.After one year, I earned nearly 2,000 yuan, which was undoubtedly an enviable amount at the time.

In 1986, he felt that he was "a leader" and brought dozens of migrant workers from his hometown, and transferred a small project from others.Tragically, after handing over the work, the boss ran away without receiving any money.At the end of the year, he had no money to go home.A friend gave him 5 yuan, and he only ate one meal a day for nearly 10 days. Such an experience hurt his self-esteem, and he secretly vowed at that time that he must look like a human being. In 1987, he finally ushered in his own "spring". He signed a factory maintenance contract of 130,000 yuan with Xinjiang Rubber Factory.In August of that year, he completed all the projects on time and with high quality, and was praised by the other party.Under his introduction, he took on several small projects.When he was liquidated at the end of the year, he was pleasantly surprised to find that he had a deposit of 50,000 yuan after excluding all kinds of debts.This also strengthened his determination to engage in small projects.Two years later, he gained a firm foothold in Urumqi, and his personal assets exceeded 700,000 yuan.

With the capital, he made an astonishing decision: to enter the field of circulation and production.He first rented a large basement in the center of Urumqi for 200,000 yuan, renovated it into a shopping mall and then sublet it to others, earning a net profit of 50,000 yuan a year. At the same time, he also opened two coal mines in the suburbs of Urumqi.In the first two years, coal mines and shopping malls brought him a lot of money, but the expansion of the stalls brought him big problems in management and decision-making.With the passage of time, inexperience and decision-making mistakes came one after another. In 1994, two coal mines closed down one after another. In early 1995, the shopping malls also closed.

As if overnight, he changed from a millionaire to a pauper who was not only penniless, but also owed hundreds of thousands of debts to others. However, he was not overwhelmed by the difficulties. In the summer of 1995, after careful investigation, he founded Xinjiang Tiandi Industrial Trading Company with more than 1 million yuan borrowed. The first project was a clothing store.This time he learned his lesson and rented out the shopping mall to operate it himself; 85% of the more than 100 employees have a college education or above; at the same time, a strict assessment and incentive system is implemented.The establishment of a modern enterprise system has made his clothing store flourish and profits are rolling in.

In 1998, he decided to invest the money he earned in the "money-making movement": successively invested in hotels, agriculture, telecommunications production and processing, real estate and other industries, and his assets have reached billions of yuan. The rich man from Wenzhou told us from his real experience that one can become rich without school education. The Jews have a joke about the relationship between wisdom and wealth. Once upon a time, two rabbis were talking: "Smart or money, which one is more important?" "Of course intelligence is important." "In this case, why do intelligent people do things for the rich? But the rich don't do things for the intelligent people? Why do scholars and philosophers always please the rich, but the rich show their wisdom to the intelligent people? What about madness?" "It's simple. Smart people know the value of money, but rich people don't know the value of smarts." In this story, the rabbi recognizes the value of money.He is quite right, intelligent people should know the value of money and should not be out of touch with money.Intelligence without money is useless intelligence and has little value.Only by combining intelligence and money can the value of intelligence be revealed in the real world.And schooling does not combine intelligence and money, so not all schooled people will become rich. Judging from real-life examples, earning money may not require such a high-level educational background or high academic qualifications.Many have college degrees but are not owners of wealth.I have a college degree, but to be honest, achieving financial freedom has very little to do with what I learned in college, says Robert Kiyosaki.I studied calculus, trigonometry, geometry, chemistry, physics, French and English literature over the years, but God knows how much of it I remember. Many successful people did not have much schooling, or left school before earning a college degree.Among these rich people are Thomas Edison, the founder of General Electric, Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft; Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, and M. Schell, Steve Gibbs, the founder of Apple Computer, and Ralph Lauren, the founder of Paul. That is to say, a high degree of education does not mean a high success rate, education represents the past, and ability represents the future.Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, Chairman of Japan's Seibu Group, believes that academic qualifications are only the proof of a person's education time, and it does not mean how much actual talent a person has.When summing up his success, Akio Morita, chairman of Sony Corporation of Japan, once wrote a book called "Let Education Go to Hell".Morita Akio proposed to burn all Sony's personnel files in order to eliminate any discrimination in the company's academic qualifications, because that would hinder the company's development.In Sony Corporation, he strongly advocated the practice of only comparing abilities, regardless of the level of education. Acquiring knowledge and getting a diploma is a good phenomenon, but it is a strange phenomenon to underestimate low education.A person's theoretical knowledge can be cultivated through school education or self-study, and future development can only be exercised in practice.It is necessary to organically combine theory and practice, and constantly adapt to the needs of social development and market development through efforts.As long as you find a job that suits you and work creatively in it, you can surpass ordinary workers and become a talent. In the eyes of some people, high education has become a "sweet pastry", and it seems that having it is equated with high-level and high-quality talents.Not quite. It is undeniable that academic qualifications are a standard to prove what a person has learned, but it is not the only standard, let alone an absolute standard.A person with a high degree of education can only show that he has such a period of learning experience and a certain level of knowledge and ability reserves. As for his true ability level and whether it can be well applied to work, it remains to be practiced and tested.If one-sidedly pursues high education and neglects the cultivation of real talents, only negative phenomena such as "water injection diploma" and "high education and low ability" will appear. The harm has been proved by many cases. Having a high degree of education is good, but having high quality is more important than having a high degree of education.High-strength learning ability is a necessary prerequisite for the formation of high-quality, but a person who is not highly educated but extremely intelligent can also control the destiny in his hands. With their brains that are good at thinking, bursts of inspiration, challenges of opportunities and Outstanding talents have realized one ideal after another. A person's ability to earn money is measured by the number of study hours in school or the number of diplomas, certificates, and degrees obtained. In fact, this kind of education that only pays attention to quantity does not necessarily make a successful person.Ralph Cordina, chairman of General Electric, expressed the attitude of business executives to education in this way: "Two of our most outstanding presidents, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Coffin, never went to college. Although we currently There are leaders with doctorates, but 12 out of 41 don't have college degrees. We're interested in competencies, not diplomas." Again, a diploma or degree may help you get a job, but it won't guarantee your advancement at work or how much money you will earn.Business is most about ability, not diploma.To some people, education means how much information and knowledge is stored in one's head, but rote learning methods of facts and figures will not get you there.At present, society relies more and more on books, files and machines to store information. If you can only do something that a machine can do, you are really in trouble. The real educations, the ones worth investing in, are the ones that develop and nurture your mind.A person's level of education depends on how much his brain has been developed and his thinking ability.But a billionaire is not something that can be achieved by a paper diploma. As long as you exercise your brain thinking ability all the time, you can become a billionaire even if you don’t have much advanced school education.On the contrary, if you only memorize knowledge by rote without developing your own brain, even if you are a doctoral student, you can only suffer poorly. Looking at the list of billionaires and their experiences, we can see that school education cannot educate billionaires.If you want to become a billionaire, you must also rely on your own efforts.