Citing outliers to make a point usually is the weakest argument for that point. 

Most dropouts in the world are utter failures. Most tea sellers will never make a prime minister, or in fact anywhere close to it. 

Such things just make for good massy content that delivers nothingness -- perhaps dreamy entertainment...but bad advice and unrealistic inspiration. 

Seek education over anything else. It changes lives…It did of our entire family tree. A post about it someday as education is central to our new non-profit project called DF.

IMAGE CREDIT — to whoever created the image and its suggestive logic :)