People see a relatively wealthy man and want what he's got but they don't want to do what he had to do to get what he has today.

Forget about rich people who've inherited vast wealth, you'll never get that unless you happen on a good scheme to take/make something of low cost and sell it for a high price. If you can't do that, you'll never be Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

A lesson about ordinary working men. I once worked in a place where all the blokes had bought/were buying their own houses. Two blokes had worked there most of their working lives. Both had paid for their houses, both had large sums in the bank and building society. They'd inherited nothing up to that point. Their strategy was to get on with their job, save what they could but go short of nothing. No, they were not mean old skinflints, they were....."careful". OK, so we were not low paid, but we'd had to learn to do the job. Others who'd not graduated to that skill level were sweeping the floor or doing a low-skilled job in the factory, that's why they got a lot less than we did!

Far too many people don't want to start at the bottom, oh no, they see people at the top and want the same, now.