Great talent is not enough

Talent alone will not make you financially successful. Look around you, so many of these so called professionals such as doctor, engineer, teacher, lawyer and so on still struggle financially. To be independent and sound financially, one must need to learn and master one more skill and their income would jump exponentially.

Skill such as financial intelligent is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing and law. Combine those four technical skills and making money with money is easier. By the way, rich people does not work for money, they are in control of money and money work for them.
For example, a story about a young writer for the newspaper, If she diligently learned the skills of sales and marketing, her income would jump dramatically, Instead of relying solely on her degree in journalism and work for money. Equipped with this extra skills as well as still working for the newspaper, she can setup her own agency part time and provide services to the other newspaper.

Most people, when it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard for money i.e. being an employee.