If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most people. More importantly, you will learn. When you do something, you might fail. But that's not because you're a failure. It's because
No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past; you are the resources and the capabilities you gleaned from it.
I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you'll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.
Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny; they're not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstances. If the circumstances around them suck, they change them.
The easiest way to make money is to create something of such value that everybody wants and goes after it.
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.