What people often forget is that there are other avenues to power, not only money.

You can acquire that which you desire through money, yes. But you can also acquire it through cunning, scamming and cheating. You can acquire it by bravery, by conquest and violence. You can acquire it by persuasion. You can acquire it by sheer determination, brute-force trial and error.

But there is one way which is different from the others, which is higher. You can acquire that which you desire by creating it, by being the cause of its existance.