Some people have the belief "I'm going to work real hard for X years and try to make enough so that I don't have to work at all if I don't want to for the rest

Some people have the belief "I'm going to work real hard for X years and try to make enough so that I don't have to work at all if I don't want to for the rest of my life." I don't know if this is what the CEO thinks, but if it is, I don't think it's cowardly.