I'd say the most important thing to do is to decouple your income from your time. You can easily become a millionaire with a reasonable paying job but to become

I'd say the most important thing to do is to decouple your income from your time. You can easily become a millionaire with a reasonable paying job but to become a billionaire requires that you find ways to massively scale your income. There is an upper threshold on what you can make per hour and barring the most successful CEOs, it is likely impossible for you to be a billionaire by trading your time for money. This is why finance is such a lucrative area. In finance you leverage money to make money as opposed to using your time to make money, property has a similar effect. Starting a company is another good option simply because you begin to make money by trading other people's time.