In most cases, anyone can imitate your business. But nobody can imitate your business if it's built based on your story. When your values infuse your… - Vishen Lakhiani

In addition to saddling many young people with massive debt for decades, studies have shown that a college education really doesn’t guarantee success. And does a college degree guarantee high performance on the job? Not necessarily. Times are changing fast. While Internet giant Google looks at good grades in specific technical skills for positions requiring them, a 2014 New York Times article detailing an interview with Laszlo Bock, Google’s senior vice president of people operations, notes that college degrees aren’t as important as they once were. Bock states that “When you look at people who don’t go to school and make their way in the world, those are exceptional human beings. And we should do everything we can to find those people.” He noted in a 2013 New York Times article that the “proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time” — on certain teams comprising as much as 14 percent.

Your beliefs can influence both you and the people around you. What you expect, you get.

Who’s more foolish, the fool? Or the fool who follows him? — SAYINGS OF OBI-WAN KENOBI, STAR WARS THE