But yeah, want to be rich?
   a) Save as much income as you can from your current job. Use
   whatever means you have to cut back expenses. Small daily
   changes (cutting out $1-2-5-10 a day) makes the largest impact.
   b) start a part time service business. Product businesses make
   low profit. The right service business is nearly pure profit.
   c) Start a DRIP and play longer term stocks. Mistakes average
   out over time, although you don't have to play for a lifetime.
   Stick with index funds as they perform the best. [I was a
   contrarian investor - the style suited me]
   d) Fix your credit. That's the easiest; Takes six month to a
   year for most things, small secured card/after 3 months, get
   another card, etc - even with extreme problems that take longer
   - the positive credit pushes down the negative.
   e) work towards real estate that you can buy for cheap and fix
   up.
   First home, you renovate and fix up and rent a room. Save it
   all.
   f) With the money you saved and the credit you have now, work
   towards getting you first fixer-upper to rent out. Duplex for a
   little 'extra'. Expect $100 each tenant beyond mortgage. In
   other words, one tenant you can expect $100 profit. Two tenants,
   $200 profit. The rest is mortgage payment.

   Since rental income is not taxable, it's all yours.

   More businesses, more rental income, more stocks, keep your day
   job as the rest is too flexible until the real estate leaves you
   self-sustaining or you can completely move your business out of
   your direct control and you become a shadow and only have to
   count the money...

   And so on and so forth.

   And then there's the more scammy ways to make money that involve
   your appearance/identity, memberships to the right clubs,
   knowing how to talk and get people to believe in you to support
   your projects. Giving business presentations with Venn diagrams
   and bold words that you know are but hollow potentials....

   In short, politics, hyperbole, brown-nosing, conning... *sigh*.

   All entirely doable. I did some of it. Not the con-man stuff.
   Never got past f in my 'set of stages'. I don't know where these
   stages came from; I just made them up, but I probably read them
   long ago and I went ahead and did them. I did sort of become a
   shadow boss though, so can't complain there.

   The 2nd stage, I could never do and I left my day job 14 years
   ago.

   Ultimately it's all about knowing how far you can trust people
   and in what areas you can trust them in. And then... trusting
   them... while also monitoring the results and responding
   properly when there are issues.