No. You will just find a percentage on this. Why? Because the numbers are huge. Plus these people are very unstable and therefore very hard to keep track of and calculate so they just give a general percentage. Now, you are right. There have been many successful people who dropped out of high school. However, many of these people lived 50, 75, 100 years ago or more. The need for a high school diploma, at lease, is rapidly increasing.

Second, many of these “careers” don’t require a college education, just motivation.

So to answer your question: it depends on your goals. If your goals require a college education, you’re either going to have to get the diploma or a GED (in which case you’re going to have to hope that the universities near you will accept one.)

If your goals don’t require a college education, you’re still going to have to work hard, probably. Oscars don’t grow on trees, you know.