Who Needs College

In a recent Forbes’ article entitled “Four Career Tips From Billionaires Who Never Graduated College” Sean Parker, Dustin Moskovitz, Phil Ruffin, and John Paul Dejoria leave us with four tips encouraging today’s young entrepreneur to forgo a college degree. They make a valid argument as  more than 15% of the world’s richest people have no college degree hanging on the wall and student loan debt is at an all time high. But please take this advice at your own risk.

Here are the tips left by these degree-less bastards (no offense guys–as I write this I am staring at my degree on the wall and looking at a student loan bill):

Sean Parker | Facebook | Net worth: $2.1 billion

SKIP COLLEGE; GOOGLE YOUR EDUCATION
“When these incredible tools of knowledge and learning are available to the whole world, formal education becomes less and less important. We should expect to see the emergence of a new kind of entrepreneur who has acquired most of their knowledge through self- exploration.”

Dustin Moskovitz | Facebook | Net worth : $3.5 billion

YOU CAN ALWAYS GO BACK
If Facebook hadn’t worked out after he left college to join Mark Zuckerberg, he said, “I could have gone back to Harvard anytime. My friends might not be there anymore. I might have to start over socially. That was a risk. But it was a pretty small risk compared to the opportunity at the time.”

Phil Ruffin| Treasure Island Casinos | Net worth: $2.4 billion

LOOK OUT FOR NO. 1
Ruffin’s last duty as someone else’s employee was to repossess a monkey. He quit and founded a chain of stores, and later, hotels and casinos. “The advice I would give to young people? Quit your job. Don’t work for anybody. You really can’t make any money working for someone else.”

John Paul DeJoria | Paul Michell Systems; Patron Tequila | Net worth: $4.0 billion

GET THICK-SKINNED
The Navy vet slept in an ancient Rolls- Royce ( RYCEY.PK – news – people ) on Sunset Strip as he slung shampoo door-to-door before making it big with Paul Mitchell. “I learned sales and marketing from knocking on a hundred doors a day. You quickly discover that you’ll get 99 slammed in your face before you make a sale.”

You can read the entire article at Four Career Tips From Billionaires Who Never Graduated College.