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>Depends whether you regard a MBA as an advanced degree. I don't.
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I agree.

>Agree re inherited wealth - such people follow their own rules- but Gates and Zuckerberg are not representative. They're exceptional.
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Hmm.. not in my experience.
Many successful business owners and entrepreneurs I know were forced to go it alone because the establishment didn't accept them for one reason or another.
They wound up employing the people with the MBA's.
Yes, they're rare, but so is real success:
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”