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Can degrees (and college loans) get you ahead in your home business? Really? What Education Do You Really Need to Succeed at Network Marketing? None, actually - at least bona-fide, parchment-verified kinds, anyway. There's a great deal of education you do need, but none of it (or very, very little) is actually taught in any school - except that of Hard Knocks. I sat out, mid-life, and got a few degrees. Then I found that none of them would give me the freedom I wanted or the amount of success I sought. Factually, each of them only prepared me for another wage-slave job - where you trade your time for someone else's money on a 1-to-1 basis. (What those degrees actually turned out to be useful for was as additional studies into humankind behaviour. Talk about getting handed lemons and making lemonade... ) When you take the top 5 or 10 richest people in America, what do you find? Bill Gates (Microsoft) - college dropout. Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway) - BA at U of Nebraska, MS at Columbia. Larry Ellison (Oracle) - college dropout. Christy Walton - (mostly) inherited from Sam Walton, who graduated from U of Missouri with a Bachelor's. (and 3 more of his heirs are in the top 20 per Forbes). Charles and David Koch - both BA, MA from MIT. Sheldon Adelson - college dropout. Michael Bloomberg - BA Johns Hopkings, MBA Harvard. But those are your top dogs. Looking further, you'll find that most of these are self-made billionaires. Sam Walton was very much self-made, and gave his wealth away to his children. So...