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veterans who practiced what they preached. They had been through the
war, literally, and had come back to tell about it.

Looking back, I see my instructors at Pensacola in the same light as
college professors. The first teaches people to be pilots, and the other
teaches people to be employees. At Camp Pendleton, my instructors taught

us to fight and kill—skills that went way beyond flying. That is why I now
choose instructors who are survivors in the real world of entrepreneurship
and investing.

Once you focus on your life’s objectives, you need to focus on your
instructors to make sure they are qualified to teach you what you want to
know. They should have already been where you want to go and have lived
to tell about it. Today, my company, The Rich Dad Company, makes sure

our instructors, coaches, and mentors are successful in the real world of
business. They have lived it and continue to live it.

A Final Thought
Becoming a gunship pilot taught me to focus and go beyond my doubts,

fears, and limitations. The lessons I learned in combat I use today as an
entrepreneur. It is not that I am fearless. I have a lot of fear, as much fear
as anyone else. Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to
act effectively, in spite of fear. Courage is a spiritual power we all possess.
It is the power over the fears that limit our lives. Focus combined with
courage gives us the power to go beyond who we are, achieve what we say
we will achieve and, in the process, become the person we want to

become.

I have not met many graduates of MBA programs who have become great
entrepreneurs. Donald is an exception. I’ve found that most graduates
focus on job security, so most find jobs in big corporate organizations with
a focus on becoming a CEO or CFO. If that is their focus of choice, getting
an MBA was probably a good move.

You may already know that most of our great entrepreneurs do not hold
MBAs, and many did not even graduate from college. A few greats are Bill
Gates, founder of Microsoft; Steve Jobs, founder of Apple; Thomas
Edison, founder of General Electric; Richard Branson, founder of Virgin;
and Walt Disney, founder of Disney Studios and Disneyland.