The latest issue of Fortune Small Business carries this story about Stanley H. Kaplan, the founder of the famous test-prep company, Kaplan Inc., when he sold it to the Washington Post Co. in 1984.
One thing in this story which really caught my eye is this extract -
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Originally Posted by FSB Maybe so, but we all know plenty of successful people who never got Ivy League degrees and never gained access to respected professions, but who managed to overcome the trauma of disappointing themselves and their parents. In fact, some of those folks might never have succeeded quite so spectacularly had their early lives taken a more prestigious turn. Stanley Kaplan, for example.
"Well," he finally concedes, "you?ve got a point there." |
I personally feel that rather than the degrees, it is the ability and passion to do something which makes a person successful. What do you think about it?
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