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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bill Gates didn't have a college degree.  Neither did Steve Jobs.  Or Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle.  Or Michael Dell.  Or Ted Turner or Kirk Kerkorian or Ralph Lauren or [b]Roman Abramovich. [/b]

All of them are billionaires.

Therefore I believe there is more than one way to demonstrate intelligence, creativity, ambition, and dedication.  Making it through four years of drinking/semi studying for B minuses pales in comparison to the accomplishments of these guys.[/quote]

Abramovich? He just grabbed some former government-owned property that was up for grabs, for cheap, and the only reason he was able to do that is that someone in the government let him. So spare me the Abramovich tale.

And I am totally sick of seeing Bill Gates as an anti-college example. Yes, he is a genuis, but most college drop-outs aren't. People with college degrees, at least, have some sort of profession going for them, even if most of them aren't billionaires.[/quote]

Wow I didn't know there was a billionaire hater out there.

1. "Spare me???"  I didn't say I liked Abramovich.  It would be hard to deny that he is ambitious. 
2. "totally sick of" Gates' story?  Okaaayy, I never said that all college dropouts are smart.

The fact that most college dropouts aren't geniuses does not mean that I should prejudge the OP's husband, who is clearly not any old dropout but a successful businessman.  Since that was the point of the thread, I'll assume you are one of those people who is too heavily invested in the status conferred by her degree.[/quote]

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