Nah, it's just "winning life's lottery!" </sarcasm>People who emigrate from their home countries and immigrate to America tend very strongly toward success, at least as success is defined in their home country. And they succeed for the reason that they can't really go home until they do, without risk of ridicule.
And that can happen inside the country, too - my brother-in-law dropped out of school to work for his father. His father agreed to let him - but warned him, "You'll never wear a white shirt." So by making that decision, he was deciding that he had to succeed in his career. And he did.
By and large, the people who become millionaires are people who, in their own minds, have to. The rest of us don't try hard enough. Simple as that.
Some fun.....
See if you can figure out what these words have in common.
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Assess
Answer: In all the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word.