How have others made it to wealth? They have consistently and tirelessly gone their own way and built up an incredible fortune as a result. If you analyze and compare these successful people's approach, it becomes clear what goals need to be pursued in life in order to earn a lot of money in the long term. Everyone can learn from these examples, because wealth is not God-given, it has to be worked for in a planned way. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Elon Musk, for example, also started out small. What characterizes these super-rich people, how do they go about it, what has shaped their path to success? The answers to these questions and thus the exemplary recipes for financial success are summarized in this publication in a compact form so that everyone can efficiently draw the right conclusions for their own individual success story. In this way, the reader of this essay becomes a model student of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Elon Musk.