People listened to you because of your experience and they belief because of your result. The poor man looks for cash while the rich man looks for opportunity . And a rich man translate his cash into opportunities.

There are 3 things you always pay
for :you pay for what you do not know, ( if you think education is expensive try ignorance ) .

You pay for what you do not do early enough. (Reduce procastination to it's minimal)
There are 3 kinds of procastination
1. Behavioral procastination
2. Voluntarily
3. Inadvented

You pay for what you forget to do (forgetfulness is not an excuse, deal with it).