The world celebrates wealth and possessions. God honors wisdom. In our society, it is possible to accumulate money without necessarily being wise. An athlete might be able to run fast with a ball in his hand, but be seemingly incapable of making wise decisions with his life. Someone might be good at earning the top dollar, and yet be destroying her family or offending her friends with every word she speaks. Just because someone has been successful at making money, does not mean they are people we should emulate.
At times people achieve leadership positions and assume they are the experts and have no need to learn from others. Such foolish people have position and influence, but no wisdom. The truth is that it is far better to have little wealth and much wisdom, than much wealth and great foolishness.
A fool with money or power will always have flatterers close at hand. A fool will readily listen to them. It is easier to listen to a flatterer than to take a hard look in the mirror to determine the nature of reality for ourselves. Yet many a leader has ultimately fallen because, though they had achieved a measure of success, they did not learn from it and maintain humility. Success closed their mind so failure was not far behind.