Some people get lucky and win 15 million dollars in Lotto Powerball. The wankers. Some people do the Tony Robins course and turn their crappy company into fortune 500 stock. Fuck them. The rest of us have to just get by for 60-80 years in a reasonable job retiring into whatever, not stopping the motor of the world, not curing AIDS, who's 15 minutes of fame is on the regional news as the guy or girl who got married on Valentines Day in a wetsuit underwater...
To me the true measure of life is the quality of friends, and I may be 10,000 miles from home but I look around and I consider myself a very rich man.