People commonly believe that the ultimate purpose of becoming rich is having more money, a better house, a luxury car, or an affluent life style. However, the real sense of being rich goes far beyond the amount of money. The real riches are the condition when a person has enough resources to fulfill his/her needs and those of his/her family members, doesn’t worry too much about the future, and makes decisions on his/her own.
This is your own perception of being rich. People have different views about richness. Some individuals believe that affording expensive stuff and going on luxury vacations is the yardstick of being rich.
Many people have different mentality about wealth and that's just how it should be, otherwise many people are just going to feel unfulfilled if they have to think that wealth is just about acquiring certain specific things and attaining of some specific standard. No. It's about what the individual feels as what makes him a healthy fellow. For some, being healthy and having sufficient funds to take care of their primary needs suffices them to believe they're wealthy enough. But this could be different for some others in the society.
Financial freedom is one of the most important objectives in achieving richness. This means that a condition whereby you do not rely on your income alone every month. One of the most important objectives of richness is the control of time. Since money can be recovered, but time cannot be recovered.
Don't assume that super-rich people control their time. These individuals are the busiest workers in the organization. Some of them have not gone on vacation for years. Having multiple streams of income comes with lots of responsibility, which could involve working all year round.
A lot of time when people talk about the wealthy people they always assume them to be the most people who now have time for themselves but it's really the opposite. This rich people are always busy lurking on where the next opportunity lies to increasing their wealth, they attend seminars on finance and business empowerments, and they're mostly awake in the middle of the nights calculating how the next day schedules are gonna be handled when their employees are busy sleeping to work for the next morning. Tell me they take vacations periodically to have time for themself and family, I would agree, but saying they always have time is not correct.