I own a private equity firm

It funny how people buy into this matrix that you have to go to school to be involved in private equity or investment banking. I only graduated high school with a 2.1, no college and was on drugs.Today I have a portfolio of 13 companies doing 80m+ in revenue.For anyone who's thinking of doing this it's possible I did it don't listen to the haters. They just don't believe they can do it. That's the difference between a worker and entrepreneur. 

David Rockefeller said he would rather have a nation full of workers than thinkers. Let that sink in.

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