My Big Question

I have many questions, some can be answered easily while others need more hard to work to find the answer to. But my one “Big Question” is that do we actually need an education to make it in life, and does it matter where we live or who we are as a person play a role in it. Because many people state that the only way to have a nice life in our generation today is to have a good education and to graduate from college. But I have seen many people make it, Elon Musk stated that “You don’t need a college degree to be successful”. While I have seen people with no education become homeless with nothing to live for and others that do bad things in order to make money for themselves like sell illegal things or be in gangs. But those people haven’t obviously tried to be successful. But with all that, is it true for someone with little to no education make it and have a nice life without being involved in anything illegal?