well he did attend harvard unversity for a period of time. but ok, he wasnt a great example. lets try allan moss, CEO of macquarie bank ltd. he was the highest paid CEO at 20 million. graduated from Usyd with B economics and MBA from harvard. would he have gotten where he is today without these qualifications?
Yes, top employees at top companies, with solid education make a lot of money. But education alone wont get you there.
Allan Moss was one of the highest paid exec in Australia, but it took him years and years of hard work, 20 hour days to get there. He probably wouldnt of got there without qualifications. But he didnt get there on qualifications alone.
But I am sure in his company there are many people as qualified or more but will never make even a fraction of what Allan made. Very few people make it to the top. Macquarie has over 13,000 staff but only one guy at the top.
Qualification alone wont take you to the top. All the book geeks out there who study study study and never leave the library may get the top degree, probably lack the social skills and personality to get a decent job. I certainly wouldnt hire one.
But still, I prefer to be the business owner and the entrepreneur with people working to make me money than to be the employee working to make the business owner money. And formal education and qualification's only purpose is to mode us to be employees.