The biggest economic misunderstanding of my childhood was that people got rich from high salaries. Though there are some exceptions—entertainers for example —almost no one in the history of the Forbes list has gotten there with a salary
You get truly rich by owning things that increase rapidly in Value
This can be a Business or a piece of a Business, Real Estate, Investments, Natural Resource, Intellectual Property, or other similar things.
You need to own Equity in something, instead of just selling your time
