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My dad went from dirt poor to private jet rich.
Working really hard at short term goals and spending dumb after skipping school will of course just pay your bills, not make you rich.
On the other hand, virtually everyone who is rich worked their ass off to get there. My dad grew up in a hut with a dirt floor. They looked forward to Sundays, when they'd have meat with dinner. Normally, the meat was something they shot or trapped. Seriously dirt poor. He worked 50 hours a week to pay for going to school full time. One job he had was janitor - scrubbing toilets to pay to learn math. Twenty-five years later, he took me and the rest of the family with him on the corporate jet. He WORKED his way to being a VP of a major company. Part of that hard work was in school.
That's how 99% of rich people get rich - by not only working their ass off at the job, but by working just as heard to learn more so they can move up. I've worked jobs basically for free if I could learn from them.
About one person out of a million luck out after first working real hard and become major stars of movies or sports. These very few appear mega-rich beyond the work they put in. Considering on average they'll spend fifteen years preparing for stardom that lasts three years, it's not as out of whack as it seems, but big stars are very, very rare. They often feel, rightly, that they are rich (for a little while) partly due to luck.
Big stars or other "lucky rich" are extremely rare, though. Just a few hundred people. Rich normally means working for a good education while working more to pay tuition and books, then working more to put that education to use, working harder than the other guy who also wants the promotion.
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