And unless you live like a miser hoarding away every penny there's always the risk that your lavish lifestyle will grow to consume your affluent wealth, shackling you to the grindstone to make more... and more... to keep up with your ever more difficult to lower expectations.
As I said a few posts back, money is just a storage of potentiality and can be used in any manner the owner chooses. I have met at most a dozen business tycoons in my life and none of them seem consumed or imprisoned by their wealth. Small sampling, but they appear to be the most well balanced and level headed individuals I've met. They worked their way up there with sheer determination, and now reap the rewards. In their position, they wield the ability to change things for better or worse. Unlike us here, who have a lot to say about things but mostly hot gas comes out and falls on deaf ears.
The affluence we are too familiar with come from stories from the media of pop artistes, lottery winners and other one hit wonders that achieved affluence relatively overnight. These aren't really exemplars you should look at as examples, since they have difficulty dealing with poverty as much as with wealth. For countries with most of their citizens fed with media nonsense, I guess this is understandable.
OK, that's an interesting observation, care to answer the question?
The answer is, successful people do not concentrate on only one thing all throughout their lives. Similarly, you do not spend a whole year gobbling lots of food so that you can enjoy the next year not eating anything at all.
That sounds spot on.