This is actually a typical survivor bias. For example, if a village has a champion in the college entrance examination, basically the whole village will "page", but the fact is how many years it took the village to have such a champion, so everyone will be so "excited". Going back to the question asked by the subject is actually a truth, because once a person with a low education succeeds in starting a business (the lower the education, the higher the achievement, the more worth saying), because in the eyes of many people, it is natural for a person with a high education to achieve high success.
So, what is the real situation in real life? To be able to speak with data, you don't need to speculate. We can look at two pictures first:
Table 1: Average income of the highest degree, USD: 2009 (SAUS, Table 232)
Table 2: Unemployment rate by education level
Figure 1 shows the relationship between American social income and the highest education level, and Figure 2 shows the relationship between American social unemployment rate and education level. Data from SAUS and BLS.
The average income of the highest education group is six times that of the high school education group, and there are obvious grade differences among all education classes. Can this gap be called heaven and earth?
Although this data is from the United States, the essence of entrepreneurship is actually similar. In China, the wage gap between those with low academic qualifications and those with high academic qualifications may not be six times as big, but it should not be small.
Therefore, it is very foolish not to think that some people with low academic qualifications are more likely to succeed in starting a business just because they have succeeded in doing so.
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1. From the perspective of ability and education.
As we all know, education and ability are not directly proportional. Many people with high academic qualifications and diplomas may not have the scenery in school when they step into the society. In today's society, it is not excluded that some highly educated people die of studying. Once they put aside book knowledge, they have no ability to cope with the social market. Some entrepreneurial projects need certain abilities in all aspects, and it is far from enough to rely on a high degree. Most of the talents selected through various examination results are outstanding in their own conditions, quality and level. However, in today's economic society, the logic of operation no longer depends only on academic qualifications, but on mutual benefit in value. Therefore, once an entrepreneur is low-educated and high-energy, he will have an advantage over people with high education and low energy. After all, what an enterprise needs is the ability to lead all aspects, not a high degree. Many entrepreneurs with low academic qualifications have done more than those with high academic qualifications, and their belief in winning is also based on certain social experience. In these respects, people with low academic qualifications have more things that people with high academic qualifications don't have.
2. From the perspective of entrepreneurial environment and background.
People with high academic qualifications receive higher education in schools. Even if we have put down our entrepreneurial ideals and planned our entrepreneurial goals long ago, we are still not as free and full as those with low academic qualifications in terms of time arrangement. After all, many people with low education have tried many times, even failed many times. When people with high education just started, when people with high education decided to give up or find another way out, entrepreneurs with low education had already become bosses. Even if they don't have a high degree and a wider education, they still have the entrepreneurial spirit, know what they need and want to start a business, and they will find their next direction, social value and entrepreneurial value in failure. The most important thing is that they know that they are behind others in academic qualifications, so they will try their best to make up for it in other ways. If they want to succeed in starting a business, they will make more efforts and sweat, and have more enthusiasm and persistence than other people with high academic qualifications.
To sum up, in terms of entrepreneurship, academic qualifications do not have an absolute advantage. People with low academic qualifications have social advantages and certain entrepreneurial ability in many aspects than entrepreneurs with high academic qualifications. Entrepreneurship needs more self-ability, rather than looking at academic qualifications through grades. Therefore, once people with low academic qualifications have superior abilities, they will naturally be stronger than those with high academic qualifications in entrepreneurship.
I once attended a junior high school reunion, which was deeply touched. At this time, students attending the party should be divided into three types:
The first type, the "schoolmaster" type, is the top student in the class when studying at school. Most of them passed the college entrance examination and achieved some small goals in life. Some of them became officials in government departments, some became executives in enterprises, and most of them were white-collar workers. They have a house and a car in the city, live with petty bourgeoisie and have a strong sense of happiness.
The second category: beautiful girls. These female students are very popular with boys at school. Generally, they marry well after graduation. Many of them have married some wealthy businessmen and lived a high-quality life.
The third category: the most controversial students in this category are often scolded by teachers for being worthless in the future at school, and by their parents for being worthless in the future when they go home. Generally, they are at the bottom of their grades, and they often pick fights and gangs at school. Many people have entered the society after graduating from junior high school, but they occupy a large position in the party, and many people come, all of whom are companies, enterprises, contractors and luxury cars.
Why do these students get along better? I have also met many business owners with low academic qualifications, but they are good at doing business and managing companies. I think they all have the following characteristics:
First of all, emotional intelligence is high, but it does not mean that emotional intelligence is not high. On the contrary, such people may have higher emotional intelligence. They know Jianghu friendship, courtesy, cliques and the back door, all of which are necessary conditions for successful people.
Secondly, they have courage, dare to do it and are not afraid of failure. If they want to succeed in the 1980s and 1990s, they must have the courage to do so.
And these people are not good at reading, but they are smart and eager to learn. They know that they have a low starting point, are not afraid of hardship, can learn from the bottom, and do well in some industries, while many highly educated students are either too high or too low, or lose their morale in a comfortable environment.
Of course, this era is really very different from the 1980s and 1990s, especially now. If you look at the previous rich list and today's list, you will clearly know how important knowledge is. Today's richest man, Yun and Ma, are almost all intellectuals from famous universities, and they will never rule the business world with low academic qualifications as before. If they have low academic qualifications, you will certainly find it difficult to succeed in the future!
Personally, I don't agree with this view unless there are authoritative statistics to prove it. The reason why there is such a saying on the Internet may be that very few successful entrepreneurs are widely reported by the media, which makes it easier for readers to remember.
Actually, this is an illusion. In the past few decades, there are indeed many people who may have succeeded in starting a business with low academic qualifications. Because these people have a cross-strait mentality, can endure hardships and work hard, they have embarked on the peak of their lives. However, in this era of knowledge explosion, although ability and education are not a concept, solid education, well-trained learning ability and open thinking mode are indispensable for managing and expanding an enterprise. At this point, we can look at the bosses of giants who are doing a lot at present, such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and Wanda. Which one has no formal education? Of course, low education and high education are relative concepts, and it is more reasonable to take undergraduate as the boundary.
To take a step back, many bosses with successful careers but low academic qualifications have chosen to enter colleges and universities for MBA. In addition to the consideration of establishing and expanding contacts, they mainly want to learn the latest enterprise management methods.
Therefore, I personally feel that individual phenomena cannot replace the overall trend. what do you think?
Stop this anti-intellectual propaganda! It is nonsense to say that people with low academic qualifications are more likely to succeed in starting a business. People who say this often lack the most basic ability to distinguish, and always regard several isolated incidents as common phenomena, so as to generalize and mislead others. Speak with big data and use large sample statistics, and you will understand that more than 90% people with low education are struggling on the poverty line, more than 90% people with low education are struggling for a living, and more than 90% people with low education are worried about the future. Do you think that others have worked hard to get into college and read a master's degree, and their income and life are not as high as your low education? What did you dream about in the Spring and Autumn Period? To tell the truth, let's take our state-owned enterprises as an example. The monthly salary during the master's internship is 5,000 yuan, and the monthly salary during the doctoral internship is 6,000 yuan. This is the income from pre-employment internship. What is the income after taking office? Imagine yourself and I won't tell you! I advise you to study hard and improve your education. Don't be misled by anti-intellectual remarks all day. The poorer you get, the sadder you get.
What kind of education do you mean by low education? Elementary school, junior high school, high school, university or even undergraduate course?
I'll take it as below the undergraduate level.
What do you think entrepreneurship is and how big is it?
I regard it as starting a company to make money, not to mention Malik Cloud, but putting the company on the Growth Enterprise Market.
If these are two premises, I suggest you analyze the academic qualifications of the CEOs of GEM and Main Board companies to see how many are below undergraduate and how many are above undergraduate?
If the requirements are lowered, look at the general qualifications of the bosses of the New Third Board enterprises.
After all these are understood, maybe you will have a deeper understanding of the easy success of low-education entrepreneurship!
If people with low academic qualifications are more likely to succeed in starting a business, then why do you need so many universities? If one country doesn't understand, all countries can be confused and will be confused for thousands of years!
Everyone has limited access to information, and judging the whole with limited information is like a blind man touching an elephant!
In the process of human understanding of the world, the logical thinking of "from point to surface, from small to large" has made us suffer a lot.
Many people feel really great when they receive a few words from some people. Actually, it's not.
Although people with high academic qualifications may not all succeed in starting a business, in the knowledge society and information age, you don't have certain knowledge, not to mention it is very difficult to succeed in starting a business.
The era when academic qualifications are not necessarily related to entrepreneurial success has passed. In the future intelligent society, knowledge is an important chip in your life and the foundation of your career.
I wish you a happy New Year!
I'm Dai Jie, welcome to pay attention.
This may be a false proposition. Is a graduate student or above considered highly educated? At present, at least half of high school graduates can attend undergraduate courses, and undergraduate courses should not be regarded as highly educated.
Finally, the success rate of entrepreneurship is not high. If the venture survives for more than five years and the annual profit is more than100000, then the individual feels that the success rate of starting a business with a high degree of education is higher (not absolute).
Pessimists are often right; Optimists often succeed.
Those with high academic qualifications: considering from many aspects and thinking carefully are often correct.
Low education: unilateral consideration, simple thinking, often successful.
Highly educated: don't be the best in the world, wait and see.
Those with low academic qualifications: Dare to be the first in the world and be positive.
The premise is: in the early days of reform and opening up, the success rate of entrepreneurship is very high.
Now: if you don't have your own core competitiveness and few invention patents, you dare to start a business rashly when almost all the production capacity is surplus. The consequence will be yourself: you will lose the whole world and get only chains.
In the early days of reform and opening up: people with low academic qualifications, one-track mind and slow mind, as promised, have a high success rate.
In fact, it is caused by the shortage economy: as long as you produce products, people will wait in line in the factory: as soon as you pull them out, they will be sold out. Poor quality can also be sold: why there are "cottage products" caused by economic shortage.
Current products: quality assurance is not required. There is already a serious overcapacity.
People with low academic qualifications now: the success rate of re-starting a business is not so high.
However, according to the research report of Harvard Business School, in startup companies, the proportion of leaders with low academic qualifications with high academic qualifications exceeds 90%. Because those with low academic qualifications are: major shareholders! Highly educated: migrant workers!
Entrepreneurship is the choice of many enthusiastic young people, but it is difficult to start a business, and nothing can be successful without Excellence! I don't think people with low academic qualifications are more likely to succeed in starting a business. The success of starting a business needs funds, talents and a good manager. First of all, for funds, there is no difference between low education and high education, so there is no difference;
Secondly, talent, a highly educated person, his friends and college classmates must also be excellent!
Finally, managers, the development of an enterprise needs managers' keen eyes to grasp the laws of market changes, and the level of this education may experience different things and there will be different situations!
Therefore, it is not necessarily easier for people with low academic qualifications to start a business. Perhaps those with high academic qualifications don't want to give up high-paying jobs and dare not start their own businesses.