Is money worth the time or life that you spend?  When you think of it, rich people don't spend life to get money.  They become lazy, and make others work for them.  They make the phrase called "passive income" which basically comes down to the hours that they can get the poor or middle class to work for them.  Passive income doesn't come without hard work though.

It comes from investments in risk.  Unfortunately risk is taught today as a bad thing.  If you fail you're a bad person.  It is taught that you get a bad grade in English you will not be able to be a successful person.

I beg to disagree.  It doesn't matter what grade you achieved in English.  In fact, my landlord is really stupid according to conventional logic.  What he was great at is investing.  He made a decision at one point in his life to invest in a property that cost more than it was worth at the time.  He made a risk, and now it's paying off in spades.  He now owns more than 20 properties and frequently vacations in Hawaii, one of the more expensive places to live off his investments...or at one time called...risks.

The most successful people you'll find in life just know how to mitigate as many risks as they can in a venture, and they make that jump.  While not always a sure thing, you can't win in life without falling on your face sometimes.