Behind every success story is a Father-in-Law desperate for his daughters husband to look like he isn't a drag on the family name.

Or a wife with a great lawyer.

Behind every Bill Gates is a couple million guys who thought they had a good idea too.

The official recipe for success in the real world.
Have a building on campus at Yale named after your uncle.
Have a trust fund in perpituity laid by for you by your adoring Mom.
Have a family name traceable to the Mayflower.
Have a set of great grandfathers who killed indians and took their land that happened to have oil in it.
Have a family that bought land next to the superfund site for pennies then had the government clean it up and gentrify the nieghborhood through political gerrymandering.
Kiss the biggest ass in the building.
Hustle old ladies out of their about to be foreclosed homes.
Be born looking like Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt.
Join a wall street brokerage firm as a mail clerk then extort and threaten your way to the middle office and learn to play golf.
I have more advice also.

Or stay broke; and struggle; by working hard and not taking any shit from pin-head managers who want you to laugh at their jokes; vote republican and pay your taxes regularly.