If you think you need to go to Harvard to succeed, think again. Many of today's top executives graduated from state universities.
The Wall Street Journal Any College Will Do.
Most CEOs of the biggest corporations didn't attend Ivy League or other highly selective colleges. They went to state universities, big and small, or to less-known private colleges.
Wal-Mart Stores CEO H. Lee Scott, for example, went to Pittsburg State University in Kansas, Intel CEO Paul Otellini to University of San Francisco and Costco Wholesale CEO James Sinegal to San Diego City College.
And for those of you that worship Warrent Buffet:
"I don't care where someone went to school, and that never caused me to hire anyone or buy a business," says Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, who graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The moral of the story? Don't waste money on an overpriced education. Go to a state school. Parents, don't worry about where you kid goes to school. If you haven't figured it out, where you go in life has more to do with who your are than where you came from.
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Warren Buffet went to Wharton Business School, the best business school in the country.
What's most important for success is your race. If you are a White man things are really easy. If you are African American, Latino, or Asian, things are tough.