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The secret is that taking risks provides optionality as well, via learning and differentiation. If you go to an ivy league school or elite consulting firm, however, you're merely one of many. Even something as prestigious as a Harvard degree makes you only one of 315,000. If you start a company, you can truly become one of a kind—you'll be one of a... See more
Erik Torenberg • Reconsidering Career Optionality
In what other industry does someone with no college degree, no training, no background, no formal experience, and no connections massively outperform someone with the best education, the best training, and the best connections? I struggle to think of any.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Across all three studies, the people who become successful entrepreneurs were more likely to have teenage histories of defying their parents, staying out past their curfews, skipping school, shoplifting, gambling, drinking alcohol, and smoking marijuana.