[SQUID]

The title assumes that all rich people make good choices. The fact is many people inherit and are born into money and nobody has a choice in the latter.

However, I agree that hard work in school and in life is the ticket. If you work hard you will have something. That's about the only choice one needs to make. The rest will take care of itself.

[brytlea]

I would love to see stats on how many people in the US are rich because they inherited the money. I'm sure that info is out there somewhere, but I'm not sure how to google it.

Most people I know who are well off have worked hard, and didn't make alot of the stupid choices made by many of those I know who still live paycheck to paycheck. This is not an across the board, hard and fast rule, but it's common enough that we warn people against stupid choices (drugs, alcohol, unwed pregnancies, etc). Of course, our government tends to subsidize those behaviors.

susie

[Dan Evans]

However, I agree that hard work in school and in life is the ticket.

Do you suppose Bill Gates would be making more money if he hadn't dropped out of college?

[LibKill]

If you work hard you will have something.

I don't have much. But if I didn't work hard I would have nothing, and deservedly so.